ROAD REOPENS AFTER FATAL CRASH OUTSIDE KILTORMER

Date Published: 25-Jul-2012

Gardaí have now completed a technical examination of a stretch of road outside Kiltormer where a woman died in a single car crash.

The woman in her fifties was the sole occupant of the car which hit a wall at Newgate on the Kiltormer to Lawrencetown road near Ballinasloe sometime between 7:30 and 8 this morning.

Gardaí, ambulance and two units of fire services attended, and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

Her body has been taken to Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe.

Garda Forensic Collision Investigators carried out a technical examination at the scene, and the road which had been closed for several hours has now re-opened.

Ballinasloe Gardaí are asking anyone with information to contact them.