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Woman charged over road death of American woman in Antrim

The crash ocurred near the Giant's Causeway in Co Antrim yesterday
The crash ocurred near the Giant's Causeway in Co Antrim yesterday

A 66-year-old woman has been charged with causing death by careless driving after an American woman was killed in a crash in Co Antrim yesterday.

She is due to appear at Coleraine magistrates court on Friday.

The PSNI said it responded to reports of a woman being struck by a vehicle in the Causeway Road area of Bushmills at around 12.30pm yesterday.

They named the woman who died in the crash as 40-year-old Allison Eichner from Connecticut in the US.

She was taken to hospital by emergency services where she later died from her injuries.