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Irish Emigrant 12 - 5 - 97 Issue 536

The worst road accident in many weeks took place at around lunch time on Wednesday on the main Limerick-Tralee road at Croagh, Co. Limerick. Four people died and a number of others were injured when a truck and five cars were involved in an unexplained crash on a wide straight stretch of road. It seems that the truck was involved in a head-on collision with one of the cars and then ploughed into the remaining vehicles. Mary Doherty (32), of Newcastlewest, and her four-year-old daughter Emma were in the leading car and died instantly. Mrs Doherty's other daughter, Sarah (2), was seriously injured but survived and is improving. The truck driver, Paul Clancy (63), of Moy, Co. Armagh, was also killed in the crash as was his passenger Gerard O'Connor (38), of Monalena, Newcastlewest. Mr O'Connor was hitch-hiking to visit his mother in hospital.