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AN 18-year-old girl lost her life in a road accident just weeks before she was due to receive her Leaving Certificate results, an inquest heard yesterday.
Tace Gould Duff, from Rahona West, Carrigaholt, lost her life in an accident at Corbally, Kilkee on Au-
gust 3 last year.
At Ennis Coroner’s Court yester- day, Tom Lowry recalled that after- noon. He said he and his wife were driving along at a speed of no more than 40 mph, at around 4pm.
He said he saw a car approaching in their line of vision and then there was an impact. “I just remember a car and then impact,” he said.
Tace Gould Duff’s brother, David, recalled being at home that day when gardai called. They told him that his sister had been involved in a very serious road accident. Their parents were in the UK at the time.
Garda Patricia Lonergan attended the scene of the accident, between a Volkswagen Passatt and a Renault ‘liter
She said that Ms Tace Gould Duff’s Clio had ended up in a field on the left-hand side of the road and had been extensively damaged.
A female was lying across the pas- senger side of the car. She was pro- nounced dead at the scene.
Pathologist Dr Elizabeth Mulcahy carried out a post mortem examina- tion on the deceased’s body at Limer-
ick Regional Hospital. She concluded that death was due to acute cardiac respiratory arrest, secondary to head injuries, consistent with having been involved in a road accident.
A verdict of accidental death was recorded.
Inspector Michael Gallagher said it was “sad to see a life being cut so short.”