A 68-YEAR-OLD woman has died following a serious road crash in Lanarkshire.
Lily Thom from Hamilton was the driver of one of two cars involved in a crash in Hamilton on Thursday.
Police Scotland said at around 11.20am a red Honda Jazz car had been travelling north on Silvertonhill Avenue, near to Avonbank Crescent, when it appeared to lose control and collide with a blue Nissan Micra travelling southbound.
As a result of the collision the red Honda car overturned onto its roof and the blue Nissan Micra left the carriageway.
Emergency services attended and both female drivers were taken to University Hospital in Wishaw.
One driver, aged 84, suffered a chest injury and the other driver, a 68 year old woman was deemed critical by medical staff and later died.
The area where the collision happened was closed for several hours as road crash investigators conducted enquiries at the scene.
Officers from Road Policing in Motherwell are appealing to anyone who may have been in the area and witnessed the incident to contact them.
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