Teenager dies, five injured in Armagh crash

A man (17) has been killed and several people seriously injured in a car crash in Co Armagh last night.

A man (17) has been killed and several people seriously injured in a car crash in Co Armagh last night.

The two-vehicle collision happened on the Battleford Road in Armagh City shortly after 6.15 p.m. Ambulance crews took seven people to hospital following the accident, but one person died.

Three of the injured were cut from the wreckage by fire crews. The total number of people who have died on Northern Ireland's roads this year now stands at 119, ten more than the same period last year.

PA

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