Four people, including a two-month-old baby, died in car accidents in the Republic in the past three days, bringing the total of road traffic fatalities this year to 247.
The baby girl was killed after the car her mother was driving collided with another vehicle on the Enniskerry road in Co Wicklow on Saturday. The mother was in a critical condition in Loughlinstown Hospital yesterday. The male driver of the other vehicle was seriously injured and brought to St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin.
In Co Cork yesterday a man in his 40s died in a collision between two vehicles at the village of Farnans, on the Macroom-Ballincollig road. The driver and passenger in the other vehicle were taken to Cork Regional Hospital.
In Co Limerick, a woman killed in a car accident early on Saturday was named yesterday as Ms Angela O'Brien (20) from Gortboy, Newcastle West. She was a passenger in a car that ran into a ditch at 3.50 a.m. at Barna, Newcastle West.
The driver of the car, Mr Dan Riordan, was taken to the Mid Western Regional Hospital, where his injuries were described as not serious.
Eleven people were injured in a head-on collision near Urlingford, Co Kilkenny, yesterday.
Five children were among the injured in the two-car collision.
They were brought to St Luke's Hospital, in Kilkenny, and Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel, Co Tipperary.
Garda sources said that some of the hospitalised were seriously hurt.
There were traffic delays in the area for some time last night.
A man in his 20s was killed in a collision between a jeep and a car at 9 p.m. on Friday at Ballynacally, Ennis, Co Clare.
The driver of the car in which the dead man was a passenger was seriously injured. The driver of the jeep sustained minor injuries. Meanwhile, a man in his 20s remains in a critical condition in the Mater Hospital in Dublin following an accident on a building site on Saturday morning.
He was crushed by machinery at the site at the junction of North Road and St Margaret's Road, Finglas.