Lorry driver becomes 111th road crash victim

A lorry driver (49) has died after a crash in Co Kildare this morning. He is the 111th person to die on the State's roads this year.

He died after his truck collided with a van at about 11.35 a.m. on the N4 at Killeighter Cross, Kilcock.

The dead man is from Ballinasloe, Co Galway. His body was taken to Blanchardstown hospital. A 43-year-old woman was also taken to Blanchardstown with injuries after the crash.

Nine people have now died on the State's roads in the last seven days. Fifteen people have died so far in April.

Two people died in separate crashes yesterday. One man died and four other people, two of them children, were seriously injured in a crash on N25 road between New Ross and Wexford.

The road has been named by the National Roads Authority as the State's worst for fatal accidents.

Mr Fergal Egan (41), of Boley, Ballycullane, New Ross, was killed instantly when his Mitsubishi Colt collided with a Seat people carrier driven by Ms Stella Meaney at Carrigbyrne, about eight miles from New Ross.

Mr Egan was towing a trailer and is understood to have been returning with his wife, Beverly, from a break in France, via Rosslare. Mrs Egan was travelling in the back seat of the car, which was destroyed.

In Co Leitrim a man (43) was killed when his car hit the wall of a house at Fenagh, near Ballinamore, at about 3.30 p.m. yesterday. Gardaí named the man today as Mr Michael Doherty, from Church Street, Ballinamore.