ROAD ACCIDENTS IN SPIDDAL AND SALTHILL CLAIM TWO LIVES

Date Published: 09-Nov-2007

Gardaí in Galway are investigating two separate road accidents which claimed the lives of two peopleA man from Switzerland died in a car crash in Spiddal while a local woman died a short time after being hit by a car in SalthillA 35 year old man died when the car he was driving, hit the wall of a garage on the Galway side of Spiddal village, shortly before midnightThe man, who was the only occupant of the car, is a Swiss national, who had been living locallyGardaí are appealling for witnesses to a collision between a car and a pedestrian in Salthill last evening in which the pedestrian later died The collision happened at Dr. Mannix Road in Salthill around 6pm yesterday when the car collided with the elderly female pedestrianThe woman, who's from the locality and in her eighties, later died in hospital