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10/06/2008
Elderly Couple Killed In Road Collision
An elderly couple have been killed after a road traffic collision in Co Limerick.
The two deaths bring the number of fatalities on the nation's roads to 129 for this year alone.
The crash took place at 1.30pm near a filling station at Coolanoran, between Newcastle West and Rathkeale on the main Limerick to Kerry road.
The couple, in their 70s, were travelling out from Limerick when their silver Citroen crashed into a black Lexus coming in the opposite direction at lunchtime yesterday.
Two women travelling in the Lexus were hospitalised following the crash but their injuries were apparently not life-threatening.
The elderly couple are from the west Limerick area but gardaí said their names would not be released until family members had been informed.
Garda have asked for anyone who may have witnessed the accident to contact them.
(DW/KMcA)
The two deaths bring the number of fatalities on the nation's roads to 129 for this year alone.
The crash took place at 1.30pm near a filling station at Coolanoran, between Newcastle West and Rathkeale on the main Limerick to Kerry road.
The couple, in their 70s, were travelling out from Limerick when their silver Citroen crashed into a black Lexus coming in the opposite direction at lunchtime yesterday.
Two women travelling in the Lexus were hospitalised following the crash but their injuries were apparently not life-threatening.
The elderly couple are from the west Limerick area but gardaí said their names would not be released until family members had been informed.
Garda have asked for anyone who may have witnessed the accident to contact them.
(DW/KMcA)
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