Tributes pour in as six-year-old girl dies nine days after horrific road accident

A six-year-old girl has died nine days after a horrific road accident.

Hannah Meshkat passed away in Dublin’s Temple Street Children’s Hospital on Saturday. She was rushed there following the horror single-vehicle collision in Co Westmeath on February 8.

It is understood tragic Hannah was a passenger in a vehicle with her father and nine-year-old brother, who were not seriously injured in the crash on the M6.

Sources say the little girl was left with catastrophic injuries after the vehicle they were travelling in left the road onto an embankment and flipped over.

The girl and her family are understood to be from Co Galway and were passing through the area when the accident occurred.

Speaking to the Irish Mirror local councillor in Westmeath, Liam McDaniel, said: “Condolences to the family and all sympathies to them. That’s on my behalf and on behalf of the council. It’s so sad.”

Gardai in Mullingar are renewing their appeal for witnesses. Those with camera footage, including dash cam, from the M6 between Junction 3 and Junction 4 at the time of the collision are urged to provide this footage to investigating gardai.

Anyone with information is requested to contact Mullingar Garda Station on 044 938 4000, or the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111.

Hannah’s death comes as a man in his 20s died following a road crash in the Foulkstown area of Co Kilkenny in the early hours of Saturday. The man, who was the driver of the car in the single-vehicle accident, died at the scene on the N10 at around 3.25am.

His body was taken to Waterford University Hospital where a postmortem examination is due to take place.

University Hospital Waterford

An appeal for information has been issued, and gardai are asking witnesses and road users who may have dash cam footage to come forward.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Kilkenny Garda Station on 056 7775000 or the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111.

Meanwhile, a cyclist in his 40s was killed following a collision with a car on the Malahide Road in Kinsealy, Dublin, yesterday morning.

He was initially rushed to Beaumont Hospital with serious injuries but was later pronounced dead. He is the 28th person to die on the roads this year. The incidents also follow the tragic death of a 15-year-old girl in Co Tipperary on Thursday.

Leah O’Meara, 15, from Thurles was a passenger in a car that collided with another vehicle on the R503 at Rearcross near Nenagh on Thursday evening.

Leah O’Meara

Funeral details have since been announced with Leah reposing at her family home this evening before removal tomorrow morning to Bothar Na Naomh Church in Thurles.

Her funeral takes place at 10am before internment at St Patrick’s Cemetery. Tributes poured out on social media for Leah, including from her sister Katie.

She said: “My beautiful, beautiful sister. I love you so much unconditionally baby girl. I still just can’t believe this is after happening to me what am I meant to do now, how can I move forward without you, you were my whole world and more.”

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