INQUEST INTO CRASH RESULTING IN DEATH OF CARROROE WOMAN

Date Published: 30-Jan-2012

An inquest has been told that a Connemara woman died days after being involved in a collision with an elderly motorist who drove down the wrong side of the motorway.

Delia Flaherty, who was aged in her 30s and from Carraroe, lost her life a few days after the incident which took place on 28th June last year.

The driver, Helen Gonoude, a native of Killeigh in County Offaly also died following the crash.

The inquest found that 66 year old Helen Gonoude had high levels of alcohol in her system when she had driven 8 kilometres down the wrong side of the Galway to Dublin road before being involved in the collision.