MAN CRITICAL AFTER ATHENRY COLLISION

Date Published: 31-Mar-2009

A Polish man injured in a head-on collision near Athenry is in a critical condition in hospital. He was the driver of a van which was in collision with an articulated truck at Slieverue, about two miles from Athenry on the Kiltulla Road at 3pm yesterday. Athenry emergency services used special cutting equipment to free him from the van and he was rushed to University Hospital Galway.