Three women die after separate crashes

A 54-year-old woman has died after being hit by a truck in Kells Co Meath this morning.

A 54-year-old woman has died after being hit by a truck in Kells Co Meath this morning.

She was pronounced dead at the scene on Castle Street in the town at 11 a.m. and taken to Navan General Hospital, where a post mortem will take place.

Earlier, gardai appealed for witnesses to an incident which left a women in her seventies dead yesterday. 72-year-old Kathleen Smith died from her injuries in James's Hospital after she was hit by a lorry at 1 p.m. on Merchants Quay in Dublin. She was from Navan, Co Meath.

In Co Laois yesterday, 79-year-old Masie Conneran died after a two-car crash at Tankardstown at 6 p.m. She was the driver and only occupant of one of the cars. She had an address in Athy, Co Kildare.

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The latest deaths bring to 335 the number of people killed on the State's roads so far this year, just one less than for all of 2003.