A WOMAN IN HER 60s has died following a road collision in Tipperary.

Gardaí said the woman was fatally injured in a road traffic collision this afternoon on the Limerick Road in Roscrea, Co Tipperary.

The woman was the driver of a car which collided with a van at about 3pm this afternoon.

Two passengers in the car, a man in his 70s and a man in his 50s, were airlifted to University Hospital Limerick with serious injuries.

The driver of the van was not injured.

A garda investigation has begun into the cause of the crash and a forensic examination of the crash site is underway.

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Woman dies and two men injured in road collision

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