20/05/2009
Road Toll Mounts As Two-Year-Old Dies
There was further tragedy on the roads yesterday as a two-year-old boy, a woman and a man in his 70s were killed in three separate road crashes.
The child, Conor Conroy, from Clondalkin, Dublin, was fatally injured when he was struck by a van at approximately 5.30pm on Tuesday evening on Deansrath Avenue, Clondalkin.
He was pronounced dead in an ambulance while being taken to Tallaght Hospital.
The woman - named as Geraldine Bugler, 58, and from Woodford, Co Galway - was killed when her car crashed on the Woodford to Portumna Road at Drumnamuckla in Co Galway at 3.45pm.
She was the only occupant of the car and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Her body has been taken to Portiuncula Hospital.
The man was Tim Walsh, 79, from Tralee, Co Kerry, who died after his car collided with a truck between Castleisland and Abbeyfeale at 2.45pm.
The accident happened on the N21 near Headley's Bridge, in Co Kerry.
The driver of the truck has been taken to Kerry General Hospital, Tralee.
(BMcC/JM)
The child, Conor Conroy, from Clondalkin, Dublin, was fatally injured when he was struck by a van at approximately 5.30pm on Tuesday evening on Deansrath Avenue, Clondalkin.
He was pronounced dead in an ambulance while being taken to Tallaght Hospital.
The woman - named as Geraldine Bugler, 58, and from Woodford, Co Galway - was killed when her car crashed on the Woodford to Portumna Road at Drumnamuckla in Co Galway at 3.45pm.
She was the only occupant of the car and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Her body has been taken to Portiuncula Hospital.
The man was Tim Walsh, 79, from Tralee, Co Kerry, who died after his car collided with a truck between Castleisland and Abbeyfeale at 2.45pm.
The accident happened on the N21 near Headley's Bridge, in Co Kerry.
The driver of the truck has been taken to Kerry General Hospital, Tralee.
(BMcC/JM)
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