A 65-year-old woman from Mallow has been killed in a two vehicle crash near Castletownroche in north Cork this morning.
The woman was travelling with her nine-year-old granddaughter when her car collided with a truck at 10.10am at Rea’s Cross on the Mallow to Fermoy road.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
The girl was not hurt in the crash.
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The driver of the truck, a man in his 50s from North Cork, was also uninjured but was badly shaken and was treated for shock.
The road remains closed pending an examination by a forensic crash investigator and local diversions are in place.
