A man has been killed after his car left the road, smashed through a fence and crashed into a field near Glanmire in Cork. The alarm was raised around 7am when a passerby spotted a car in a field near junction 18 on the M8. The driver, believed to be his late 40s, and who was the sole occupant of the vehicle, suffered fatal injuries. Emergency services including two HSE ambulances and paramedics, a critical care doctor, two units of the County Fire service from Midleton and three from Cork city, as well as gardai, rushed to the scene. The northern off-ramp at junction 18 has been closed for a full technical examination by garda forensic collision investigation.

Source: Irish Examiner December 30, 2018 09:34 UTC