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Woman in her 30s dies and four others injured in Tipperary road crash

Two car collision also saw man in his 40s and three teenagers taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries

A Garda road closure close to the scene near Aclint Bridge in Ardee, Co Louth, after three women were killed and two men seriously injured in a road accident involving three cars. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Friday July 21, 2017. Gardai said one woman, aged 39, was driving one of the cars, and the two other women, aged 69 and 37, were passengers. See PA story ACCIDENT Deaths Ireland. Photo credit should read: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

The road remains closed, local traffic diversions are in place, and the scene is being preserved for examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA

Colm Keena
Sat Mar 30 2024 - 12:57

A woman in her 30s has died in a two-car collision in Co Tipperary on Friday night in which a man and three teenagers were also injured.

The incident occurred on the N24 at Kilsheelan at about 10pm and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. A man in his 40s who was driving the car the woman was in was taken to Waterford University Hospital with injuries gardaí said were non-life threatening.

The male driver and two passengers – one man and one woman – of the second car (all in their late teens) were also taken to Waterford University Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. No other injuries have been reported, the Garda Press Office said in a statement.

The road remains closed, local traffic diversions are in place, and the scene is being preserved for examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators, the statement on Saturday morning said.

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Gardaí are appealing for any witnesses to come forward. Any road users who may have camera footage (including dashcam), and were travelling in the area of the N24 at Kilsheelan, Co Tipperary, on Friday between 9.30pm and 10.10pm are asked to make this footage available.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact Clonmel Garda station on 052 617 7640, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.

Colm Keena

Colm Keena

Colm Keena is an Irish Times journalist. He was previously legal-affairs correspondent and public-affairs correspondent

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