Woman charged over road death of American woman in Antrim
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.
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