Pedestrian dies after being hit by 4x4 in Co Cork

Gardaí have appealed to the public for assistance following a fatal road collision in which a 63-year-old pedestrian was killed in west Cork earlier this morning.

The man was fatally injured when he was struck by a car while walking on the Durrus to Kilcrohane Road on the Sheep's Head Peninsula around 1.55am.

The driver of the car raised the alarm and the pedestrian who was from the locality was pronounced dead at the scene by a local doctor.

The man’s body was later removed to Cork University Hospital where a post-mortem is expected to take place later today. His name has not yet be released by gardai.

The driver of the car, a young man was injured but was said to be deeply traumatised and his car was later removed for a technical examination by garda mechanical experts.

Meanwhile the Durrus to Kilcrohane road remains closed this morning as a garda forensic crash investigator examines the scene off the fatal collision.

Gardaí have appealed to anyone who may have travelled the road between 1.30am and 2.00am and have any information that can assist them to contact them at Bantry Garda Station on 027-20860.

The pedestrian’s death is the second to happen on Cork roads this year and follows the death of singer Black at Cork University Hospital on January 26th.

Black, whose real name was Colin Vearncombe, was fatally injured in a single vehicle collision some ten days earlier near Fivemile on the main Kinsale to Cork Road.