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Gardaí at Mullingar Garda Station are investigating the collision. Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland
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Two men killed in collisions in Westmeath and Clare
Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to the collisions to contact them.
Updated: 08:16
TWO PEOPLE HAVE been killed in separate road collisions in the last 24-hours in Westmeath and Clare.
A 36-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a crash on the old N6 at Gaulstown, Rochfortbridge between 7.45pm and 8pm yesterday evening. Gardaí said the man was travelling on the road when his motorcycle struck a fence and a stone pillar.
His body has been taken to Midlands regional Hospital, Tullamore, where a full post mortem examination will take place.
In a separate incident, a man in his 20s was fatally injured when his car collided with a wall at 4.30am today on the Sixmilebridge Road to Shannon in Clare. His body has been removed to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick where a post mortem will take place later today.
Anyone with information about these crashes is asked to contact gardaí.
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