Gardai name teenagers killed in road accident

Gardaí have this evening named the two teenagers killed in a road accident this morning.

Both aged 17 years and from Co Carlow, they are Joseph Dunne from Slaney View, Tullow, and Colin Coleman from Hacketstown.

RECENT ROAD TRAGEDIES Kildare- two men killed in Newbridge Kildare- two men and a woman nr Moyvalley Cork- one man in Ballydehob Wicklow- one man in Newtown’kennedy Carlow- one man in Ballyphelan Donegal- one man in Glenveagh Monaghan- two girls and one boy in Ballybay Westmeath- two men at Tyrrelspass

They died after the van in which they were travelling crashed into a wall at Tyrrellspass, Co Westmeath.

The deaths bring to fourteen the number that have died on the State's roads since the weekend.

Two hundred and nineteen people have been killed on Irish roads this year.

Meanwhile, a mother and her eight-year-old son are still in a critical condition in Monaghan General Hospital after the car in which they were travelling collided with a milk tanker on the Monaghan/Cootehill Road near Swanscross yesterday.

Ms Catherine Curtis, who is in her 30s, underwent emergency surgery last night and her son, Wayne, is on a life support machine.

Three young relatives aged between four and 14 were killed in the incident, while the woman's husband and their three-month-old baby were not seriously injured.

The driver of the tanker was physically unhurt but treated for shock.