Mother and daughter tragically drowned following crash, inquest hears

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, writes Eoin English .

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.