An elderly woman has died after a road traffic accident in Slyne yesterday afternoon.

Police says the incident happened on Arden Close at around 4.30pm, when a Ford Ka collided with a wall. The driver, an elderly woman was taken to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary but sadly died.

A full investigation is underway, but one of the lines of the investigation is that she could have been taken ill at the wheel.

More information on the accident is expected later today.

virtual-lancaster extends its sympathies to friends and family of the deceased.