01/11/2007

Road Death Toll Rises Again

There have been further road fatalities with two women and a man being killed following separate road accidents yesterday evening in both Co Sligo and Co Londonderry.

In the first incident, a 48-year-old woman died after being hit by a car at Corball in Enniscrone at around 5pm.

In Northern Ireland, a man and a woman also died in a two-vehicle collision on the Duncastle Road in Newbuildings just before 6pm.

(BMcC)

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