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RTE Television News 02-08-2003
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Dublin child killed in Co Wexford accident
August 02, 2003 16:50
A Dublin child was killed and another critically injured in a road accident in Co Wexford this morning. The accident happened at 10.30am this morning when a lorry collided with a car at the Ashfield Cross junction on the main Wexford to Rosslare road. There were four people travelling in the car, two children and their parents. One of the children, nine-month-old Katie Clarges, of Loughlinstown, Co Dublin, was killed and her brother, Connell (3), is in a critical condition. He has been transferred from Wexford General Hospital to Beaumount Hospital in Dublin. The childrens' parents, Paul and Grainne Clarges, are still in hospital in Wexford. The driver of the lorry was brought to hospital where he was treated for shock. Gardaí say it is too early to say how the accident occurred.

Irish Emigrant
http://www.emigrant.ie/article.asp?iCategoryID=177&iArticleID=20146
Connell Clarges (3), of Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin, died in hospital on Monday night, two days after his sister Katie (18 months) lost her life in a road accident at Ashfield Cross, on the main Wexford to Rosslare road. The children were travelling with their parents, Paul and Gráinne Clarges, when the family car was in collision with a truck.