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 people

A 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 Salthill

A 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 midnight

The man, who was the only occupant of the car, is a Swiss national, who had been living locally

Gardaí 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 pedestrian

The woman, who’s from the locality and in her eighties, later died in hospital