A WOMAN killed in a crash at Kirkburton worked at one of Huddersfield's biggest firms.

Louise Kiernan, 36, was an engineering designer at Holset Turbochargers, of St Andrew's Road, Turnbridge.

She lived in the Rivelin area of Sheffield and was travelling to work when the tragedy happened on Penistone Road just after 8am on Tuesday.

Her red Vauxhall Astra was involved in a head-on crash with a lorry on a left-hand bend, near the junction with Thunderbridge Lane.

Ms Kiernan was originally from the Yeovil area of Somerset.