Four people have died and a number of people have been injured in road crashes yesterday and today.
Four people have died and a number of people have been injured in road crashes yesterday and today.
A 22-year-old woman was killed when the car she was a passenger in crashed in Co Donegal early this morning.
There were no other vehicles involved in the crash near Maas, on the Glenties to Portnoo road, just after 4am. The dead woman was a back seat passenger in the car that went out of control and crashed, according to gardaí.
Three other occupants of the car were taken to Letterkenny Hospital with injuries not believed to be life threatening. Gardai are appealing for any witnesses or anybody who was in the Maas Bridge area of Glenties between 3.45am and 4.10am to contact them at Glenties Garda Station telephone.
A man in his 20s died yesterday when his motorbike crashed in Dublin. The crash happened at 9.15pm on Nutgrove Way, Dublin 14.
Gardaí said no other vehicles involved in the crash and the man was dead on arrival at Tallaght hospital. He has not been named as yet.
In the North, two people died in road crashes yesterday. One died when two cars crashed on the Magherafelt Road in Draperstown shortly after 10pm.
In south Armagh, a lorry driver died after crashing on the Tandragee Road between Poyntzpass and Jerrettspass at about 5pm.
A total of 61 people have died on the North's so far this year, a reduction of 20 on the same period last year. In the Republic, 180 people have died on the State's roads since the start of the year, an increase of 10 for roughly the same period last year.
Meanwhile, gardaí in Abbeyleix, Co Laois, are looking for witnesses to a collision which occurred happened on the N8 this morning. The collision between two cars happened at around 8am, about 3 kilometres north of Abbeyleix on the Portlaoise Road.
Three people were injured and taken to Portlaoise Hospital where their conditions are not life threatening. "Gardai are anxious to speak to the driver of an articulated lorry who may have witnessed the collision," a Garda spokesman said. "This lorry was travelling south at the time."
In Bettystown, Co Meath, gardaí are hopeful of an early breakthrough in the investigation of a hit-and-run in the village early this morning. A man was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda with injuries that are not believed to be life threatening.
He was hit by the car which was then abandonned and two occupants ran away. Roads were closed for a time in Bettystown for a technical examination by gardaí.
