Surviving driver of fatal Cork crash knew mother and daughter who died

The driver who survived the car crash which claimed the lives of a mother and daughter in Co Cork is a friend and neighbour of the victims’ family, the local parish priest has said.

Geraldine Clancy, 58, and her daughter Louise, 22, died close to their home in Kilworth in a two-car collision on the R667 Fermoy to Ballyduff Road shortly before 11.40am on Tuesday.

They were heading towards nearby Fermoy to do some Christmas shopping when the accident occurred. It is understood the car in which the two women were travelling left the road upon impact and ended up in a tributary of the Blackwater River. The sole female occupant of the other car involved in the collision was not seriously injured.