A 68-year-old woman who died in a serious road crash in Hamilton has been named. 

Lily Thom, from the town, was involved in a collision at around 11.20am on Thursday, when two cars collided on Silvertonhill Avenue near to Avonbank Crescent. One of the vehicles was thrown onto its roof and the other off the road.  

Emergency services attended and both drivers were taken to University Hospital in Wishaw

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One driver, aged 84, suffered a chest injury and the other driver, a 68 year old woman was deemed critical by medical staff. 

She died in hospital on Friday.

The area where the collision happened was closed for several hours as road crash investigators conducted enquiries at the scene. 

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Officers from Road Policing in Motherwell are appealing to anyone who may have been in the area and witnessed the incident to contact them via 101, quoting incident number 1157 of October 19.