Weekend road death toll climbs to 7

An elderly couple died after a collision between a car and a lorry in Co Derry this morning

An elderly couple died after a collision between a car and a lorry in Co Derry this morning

The crash happened on the main Coleraine to Ballymena road shortly before 9am.   Five other people - four of them in their 20s or younger - have died on the roads during the bank holiday weekend.

Shortly before 6pm on Saturday, Eleanor Ahern (25), Watergrass Hill, Cork, died when the car she was driving was in collision with a second car near Fermoy.

In Co Meath, on Saturday morning, Francis Griffin (44), Ratoath Drive, Finglas, Dublin, died when the car he was driving was involved in a three-car collision on the N2 south of Ashbourne.

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The accident happened at 10.30am at the Whitetree Lane Junction and involved another car as well as a van.

In Co Mayo, shortly before 1am on Saturday, Patrick McDonnell (18), Bangor Erris, Belmullet, was fatally injured when the car in which he was a passenger left the road at Kiltean, near Bangor Erris.

Mr McDonnell was pronounced dead on arrival in the hospital.

In Co Cork, at 12.10am on Saturday, a Polish national Przemyslaw Kiferling (27) was killed when the car he was travelling in appears to have gone out of control. It hit a ditch in Gurravesogue, Riverstick, near Kinsale.

In the North, a 19-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene of a crash at the Ballynahinch Crossroads on the Cumber Road, near Hillsborough in Co Down.

The car in which the man had been travelling was in collision with a second car shortly after 9pm on Saturday.