Gardaí are investigating a fatal road traffic collision, which happened this morning  shortly before 9.00am.

The single vehicle crash happened on the Ballyduff to Tralee road at Ballincrossig Cross, Lixnaw.

The driver of the car, a woman in her 40s, was fatally injured. Two teenaged passengers were removed by ambulance to Kerry General Hospital. Their condition is not known.

The road at the scene of the crash was closed to facilitate an examination of the area by Garda forensic collision investigators. It has since reopened.