Woman dies in crash 10km from recent fatality

A woman in her 20s became the second motorist to die on an east Cork road in the space of just over a week when she was involved in a fatal incident yesterday.

The accident brought to 11 the number of people killed on roads so far in 2018, three of which have been in Co Cork.

The woman, the sole occupant of her car, died when the vehicle left the N25 road eastbound at Water Rock outside Midleton at around 8.25am and hit a barrier.