Passenger killed when car collides with tractor

A 21-YEAR-OLD front seat passenger died after the car he was travelling in collided with a tractor, and in a separate weekend accident two teenage girls were killed when a van struck a tree.

Martin Hickey died in hospital shortly after he was injured in a crash on the outskirts of Charleville, Co Cork.

The Nissan Sunny he was travelling in collided with a tractor at Kippane, on the Newtownshandrum road shortly before 8.30pm on Saturday.