A youth and a young girl have died in separate accidents in the north and south of Ireland over the weekend, while driving vehicles they were too young to legally use.
Police in Northern Ireland are appealing for witnesses to a quad bike accident at Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, on Saturday in which a seven-year-old girl was killed.
Megan Linda Bennett, from the Woodburn area of Carrickfergus, was riding the bike when the accident happened, shortly before 4 p.m. at Hawthorne Avenue in Carrickfergus.
Police recovered the quad bike and were last night trying to trace the owner. They are appealing for witnesses to the accident to come forward.
Police at Carrickfergus said yesterday that it was illegal for a child of that age, or any child under the age of 16, to ride the high-powered bikes, but a spokeswoman said it was not yet clear how the girl got access to the vehicle.
In a separate incident a 15-year-old youth was killed in a farming accident at Ballymacarbry, Co Waterford.
Gardaí in Waterford have started an investigation into the accident, which happened at around 3.30 p.m. on Saturday.
It is understood that the youth was driving a tractor on his family's farm when the accident happened. However the cause of the accident is not yet known.
The minimum age to drive a tractor is 16. The youth is the first teenager to die in an Irish farm accident this year. Some 44 children have died in farm accidents over the past 10 years, making farms the most dangerous workplace in the State.
The Health and Safety Authority recently decided to increase its level of farm inspections around the State.
