04/01/06
Garda appeal after fatal crash
By Sean O’Riordan and Donal Hickey
GARDAÍ are appealing for witnesses to an horrific head-on-crash which claimed the life of a 46-year-old soldier yesterday morning.
John Granville from Barrack Hill, Fermoy, was driving to Cork when his blue Fiat Cinquecento was involved in a head-on-collision with a lorry on the main Cork-Dublin road, two miles south of the village of Rathcormac.
The accident happened at 7.10am and Mr Granville was pronounced dead at the scene by a local doctor.
His body had to be cut from the wreckage by fire brigade personnel, and it was taken to Cork University Hospital where a post mortem was carried out yesterday afternoon.
The car he had been travelling in was taken to Fermoy where it was technically examined by garda experts.
Superintendent Flor Horan appealed for anybody who witnessed the accident to contact Fermoy garda station at 025-82100.
Mr Granville, a married father-of-three, joined the army in 1985 as a trooper with 1st Cavalry Squadron, based at Fitzgerald Camp, Fermoy.
When that camp closed a few years ago he, along with his unit, was transferred to Collins Barracks in Cork.
A Defence Forces spokesperson said yesterday that “a cloud had descended over Collins Barracks” and the news of Mr Granville’s death had shocked and saddened his colleagues.
“He was a very popular member of his unit and he was well got with everybody.”
Garda appeal after fatal crash
By Sean O’Riordan and Donal Hickey
GARDAÍ are appealing for witnesses to an horrific head-on-crash which claimed the life of a 46-year-old soldier yesterday morning.
John Granville from Barrack Hill, Fermoy, was driving to Cork when his blue Fiat Cinquecento was involved in a head-on-collision with a lorry on the main Cork-Dublin road, two miles south of the village of Rathcormac.
The accident happened at 7.10am and Mr Granville was pronounced dead at the scene by a local doctor.
His body had to be cut from the wreckage by fire brigade personnel, and it was taken to Cork University Hospital where a post mortem was carried out yesterday afternoon.
The car he had been travelling in was taken to Fermoy where it was technically examined by garda experts.
Superintendent Flor Horan appealed for anybody who witnessed the accident to contact Fermoy garda station at 025-82100.
Mr Granville, a married father-of-three, joined the army in 1985 as a trooper with 1st Cavalry Squadron, based at Fitzgerald Camp, Fermoy.
When that camp closed a few years ago he, along with his unit, was transferred to Collins Barracks in Cork.
A Defence Forces spokesperson said yesterday that “a cloud had descended over Collins Barracks” and the news of Mr Granville’s death had shocked and saddened his colleagues.
“He was a very popular member of his unit and he was well got with everybody.”
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