Gardaí questioning driver of car after passenger dies in Cork crash

The car apparently went out of control, struck a sign and then hit a tree stump.

Local Independent Cork county councillor, Alan Coleman, said the sense of shock in Innishannon village today is “palpable”

Gardaí are questioning the driver of a car after one of his five passengers died in a single vehicle crash in Co Cork in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Emergency services attended the scene of the fatal road traffic incident in the townland of Ballynamona, about 4kms north west of the town of Kinsale, shortly after 1.30am on Saturday morning.