Mum and daughter drowned in flooded field after crash

A mother and daughter drowned in a flooded field after they were involved in a two-car collision just days before Christmas, an inquest has heard.

Coroner Dr Michael Kennedy was told yesterday that Geraldine Clancy, 58, and her daughter Louise, 22, from the townland of Leitrim, near Kilworth, Fermoy, in Co Cork, both died from acute cardiorespiratory failure due to drowning after their car was involved in a collision with another car on the Fermoy to Ballyduff road at about 11am on December 22 last.

They had been on their way to finish last-minute Christmas shopping in Fermoy, and were about one kilometre from their home, when the Ford Focus in which they were travelling was in collision with another car which emerged from a side road at Ballyderown.