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Carnage on roads over the weekend as four people lose their lives

Monday, 5 December 2016 08:09

It was a weekend of carnage on the roads at four people, including a Cork woman, lost their lives in road traffic incidents. 

Gardaí are appealing for information for witnesses after a 29-year-old Cork woman lost her life on the main Cork-Mallow Road between Killeens and the Blarney turnoff  on Friday night at around 11 o'clock.

Mandy O'Leary from Rathpeacon Road, Farranree was fatally injured when her car went out of control and overturned as she drove northwards along the N20 towards Mallow.

Gardai have appealed to anyone who may have witnessed the crash to contact them on 021-4522000. 

Elsewhere gardaí in Dungarven are appealing for witnesses after a two car collision on Military Road outside the town in which a people carrier was in collision with a Volkwagen Golf that burst into flames on impact.

Six members of a Cork family were being treated in hospital last night following the two car collision which claimed the lives of three other people at around 10am yesterday morning.
 
A 37-year-old woman originally from Churchfield and her partner a 35-year-old man from Cobh both suffered serious injuries .

The pair and their nine-year-old daughter were airlifted to Cork University Hospital and are said to be in a critical but stable.
 
Three other members of the family, all children, sustained serious but non- life threatening injuries in the crash and are being treated in University Hospital Waterford .
  
Three occupants of the Golf - all men - lost their lives in the collision and gardai were last night trying to formally identify all three.

The Golf was last registered to a person living in Blackpool in Cork but gardai were still trying to establish last night whether the car had since been sold on to a new owner.

Ralph Riegel, Southern Correspondent with the Irish Independent, says the victims of the fatal crash will need to be identified by their dental records.
 

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