Nine people killed in weekend road carnage
Nine people lost their lives on the state’s roads over the weekend in seven separate road crashes, gardaí confirmed today.
The spate of accidents occurred in counties – Donegal, Limerick, Laois, Louth, Galway and Dublin.
A further fatal crash in Co Longford today brought to 10 the number of people killed over the past four-days and sent the road death toll spiralling to 353 people killed so far this year.
A man, who was driving a four-wheel drive vehicle, was killed in an crash at Ballymahon in Co Longford shortly after 9am.
A 12-year-old boy was killed crossing a road near Woodpark, Castleconnell in Limerick around 10pm last night.
The young boy was pronounced dead at the scene.
One of the worst crashes left two men and one woman dead after their car collided with a truck in Stradbally, Co Laois, on Saturday morning.
The three who were killed were occupants of the car and the accident occurred at Money Cross, at 10.40am. The driver of the lorry was not injured.
A 28-year-old man was killed trying to cross the busy N4 road near the junction with the M50 motorway on the outskirts of Dublin last night.
He had just got out of a car and was trying to make it to the other side of the road when he was struck by a bus at around 8pm.
A man in his late 40’s was killed in a single-vehicle crash at Letterkenny, Co. Donegal at 12.30am on Sunday. The man, who was a passenger in the car, was pronounced dead at the scene and three other people were treated for minor injuries.
A 20-year-old, a 21-year-old woman and a man in his 40s were also killed in separate accidents in Co Louth, Co Galway and Co Dublin on Friday and Saturday.
The latest figures from the Gardaí show 331 people lost their lives in the same period last year. So far this year, road crashes have claimed the lives of 153 drivers, 83 passengers, 53 pedestrians and 10 cyclists.
