Five dead on North roads as death toll mounts

Five people have been killed and one critically injured in three separate accidents on Northern Ireland's roads.

Five people have been killed and one critically injured in three separate accidents on Northern Ireland's roads.

The deaths bring the number killed in the North this year to 27, double the number for the same time last year.

Last night, two men were killed when a jeep and car collided on the Favour Royal Road outside Augher, Co Tyrone. A woman passenger in the car was taken to hospital where she is "critical".

In Bangor, Co Down, a man (22) died when the car in which he was a passenger hit a tree on the Belfast Road near the Springhill slip road at around 9.40 p.m. The driver was taken to hospital and later died.

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Earlier, a man was killed when part of a tree hit his car on the A4 road between Ballygawley Roundabout and Dungannon in Co Tyrone.

Fire officer Colin McGuigan said: "It appears a large branch of tree fell on the front of or on top of the car. When we arrived there was a scene of carnage".

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