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06/10/2008
Fatal Crashes Probed
Police are currently investigating the third in a series of fatal road accidents over the last 48 hours.
Garda in Cashel, Co. Tipperary are at the scene of a single vehicle road traffic collision, which occurred at Ballyheene, Cashel today (6th October) at approximately 7.05am.
One man was pronounced dead at the scene and another was taken to Clonmel General Hospital having sustained serious injuries after the car in which they were traveling collided with a tree.
The deceased was a passenger in the car at the time.
Gardai at Cashel Garda Station are appealing for any witnesses to this collision and to anyone who may have observed this vehicle prior to the collision - a navy Audi A4 coming from Cashel towards Dualla.
The road between Cashel and Dualla is currently closed and diversions are in place.
Meanwhile, an investigation is also underway in Co Galway after a young man died in a road accident on Sunday.
Gardai in Loughrea, have begun a probe after a single vehicle road traffic collision which occurred shortly after 5.00am on Sunday (5th October), at Masonbrook, Loughrea.
A 24-year-old man - Paul Flynn, of Lughrea, Co. Galway - was pronounced dead at the scene after the car in which he was travelling collided with a wall.
He was a serving police officer and was returing home from work when the accident occurred.
Police said there were no other occupants in the car at the time and that the deceased's body has been removed to Portiuncla Hospital in Ballinasloe.
They have appealed for help from the public and asked that anyone who may have witnessed the collision should contact Loughrea Garda Station on 091-842870.
Police are also investigating an earlier fatal traffic collision, this time on the N76, the main Kilkenny to Clonmel road.
They said that a single vehicle was involved and crashed at Kilsheelan at 10.30 am on Saturday, 4th of October.
A passenger in the car - a 33-year-old woman, since named as Renata Ferenezova of Freron Court, Kilkenny - was killed while the driver, a man in his 40s, suffered seriously injures.
Another passenger in the car, a nine-year-old boy, was not injured.
The road was closed for a time with diversions in place while Garda forensic collision investigators carried out an exanination at the scene.
In other related news, the 16-year-old who died in an earlier collision at Moyle, Newtowncunningham, Co. Donegal (2nd October) has been identified as Noel Boyle, from Dunduffsfort, Manorcunningham, Co. Donegal.
(BMcC)
Garda in Cashel, Co. Tipperary are at the scene of a single vehicle road traffic collision, which occurred at Ballyheene, Cashel today (6th October) at approximately 7.05am.
One man was pronounced dead at the scene and another was taken to Clonmel General Hospital having sustained serious injuries after the car in which they were traveling collided with a tree.
The deceased was a passenger in the car at the time.
Gardai at Cashel Garda Station are appealing for any witnesses to this collision and to anyone who may have observed this vehicle prior to the collision - a navy Audi A4 coming from Cashel towards Dualla.
The road between Cashel and Dualla is currently closed and diversions are in place.
Meanwhile, an investigation is also underway in Co Galway after a young man died in a road accident on Sunday.
Gardai in Loughrea, have begun a probe after a single vehicle road traffic collision which occurred shortly after 5.00am on Sunday (5th October), at Masonbrook, Loughrea.
A 24-year-old man - Paul Flynn, of Lughrea, Co. Galway - was pronounced dead at the scene after the car in which he was travelling collided with a wall.
He was a serving police officer and was returing home from work when the accident occurred.
Police said there were no other occupants in the car at the time and that the deceased's body has been removed to Portiuncla Hospital in Ballinasloe.
They have appealed for help from the public and asked that anyone who may have witnessed the collision should contact Loughrea Garda Station on 091-842870.
Police are also investigating an earlier fatal traffic collision, this time on the N76, the main Kilkenny to Clonmel road.
They said that a single vehicle was involved and crashed at Kilsheelan at 10.30 am on Saturday, 4th of October.
A passenger in the car - a 33-year-old woman, since named as Renata Ferenezova of Freron Court, Kilkenny - was killed while the driver, a man in his 40s, suffered seriously injures.
Another passenger in the car, a nine-year-old boy, was not injured.
The road was closed for a time with diversions in place while Garda forensic collision investigators carried out an exanination at the scene.
In other related news, the 16-year-old who died in an earlier collision at Moyle, Newtowncunningham, Co. Donegal (2nd October) has been identified as Noel Boyle, from Dunduffsfort, Manorcunningham, Co. Donegal.
(BMcC)
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