A YOUNG Sligo woman has been killed in a car accident while on holiday on Kangaroo Island in south Australia. A second woman was uninjured but was kept in the Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide overnight for observation.
The dead woman was named yesterday by the Department of Foreign Affairs as Ms Deborah Tymon of Langan Drive, Cranmore, Sligo. The department said it was in close touch with her family in Sligo and arrangements are being made to fly her body home. The second woman's name was not known.
The two women are believed to have been working as nurses in Sydney. The accident happened on Tuesday, when the women's hired car left the road and rolled over on an isolated stretch of the Playford Highway, the main road through the centre of the island.
Kangaroo Island is famous for its unspoiled scenery and wildlife, but is notorious for its roads. Most, including the section where the accident occurred, are unsealed, rocky, dusty and often covered with treacherous round ironstone pebbles.