Woman loses life in freak accident in Galway

Gardaí in Galway have appealed for witnesses after a young woman lost her life in a freak accident in the early hours of yesterday morning.

The woman, in her early 20s, died after falling from a van when the back doors of the vehicle opened as it was turning at a junction near Moycullen, about 10km west of Galway City.

It is understood there were seven people in the van at the time of the incident, which happened at 2.20am at the junction with the Barna road on the N59 between Galway and Moycullen.