Gardaí are to prepare a file for the DPP after releasing without charge a woman arrested for questioning about the death of a mother of two following a road traffic collision in Cork in February.
Detectives spent 12 hours on Thursday questioning the woman in her 40s about the death of Sheila Dunne, who died after being fatally injured in a single-vehicle crash in Glanmire on February 11th.
The woman had presented by appointment early on Thursday morning at Mayfield Garda Station, where she was arrested and detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.
A team of detectives then spent the day quizzing the woman about the collision near Sarsfield’s Court in Glanmire.
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Ms Dunne, who was in her 50s, suffered serious injuries in the crash and was rushed by ambulance to Cork University Hospital. She died at the hospital on February 13th.
The SUV involved in the collision was removed from the scene and examined by garda technical experts in the hope that the examination of the vehicle might shed some light on the crash.
An informed source said that an examination of mobile phones will be central to the investigation as they hope to establish who was driving the SUV when it went out of control and crashed.
Gardaí have already harvested a considerable amount of CCTV footage from premises in Glanmire village including a filling station, which is understood to have been helpful to them in their investigation.
However, gardaí have still appealed to any road users who were in the Glanmire area and observed a white SUV at the time of the incident to contact them at Glanmire Garda Station on 021 455 6370.
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