The road will remain closed overnight, with local diversions in place
A male motorcyclist aged in his late 50s was killed on Monday evening in a road traffic collision involving a car in Co Westmeath.
The road tragedy took place on the N55 at Lissoy shortly before 6pm on Monday, when a motorbike and a car were involved in a crash. Gardai and emergency services rushed to attend the scene but, tragically, the motorcyclist was fatally injured in the collision.The body of the deceased was removed to the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar, where a post-mortem is scheduled to take place in due course.
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