Four-year-old boy killed as number of road deaths rises to 235

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD boy died yesterday in a road accident in Co Kerry, bringing the number of people killed on the roads to 235 this year.

The boy died when the vehicle in which he was travelling overturned at Ballyconroy on the Ballybunion to Ballyduff Road at 1.30pm.

Three other occupants of the vehicle were taken to Tralee General Hospital to be treated for their injuries and gardaí at Listowel are currently investigating the accident.

The death of the boy, who has not yet been named, brings to 34 the number of people who have been killed on the country’s roads this month.

The Road Safety Authority said that July is traditionally the worst month of the year for road deaths and has appealed for all drivers to take extra care.

Over the weekend gardaí also released the names of three people who died in separate accidents in other parts of the country on Thursday and Friday.

In Roscommon, pensioner Josephine Grimes, aged 83, from Killaloe, Co Clare, died after her car struck a telegraph pole at 9.30am on Friday. She died of her injuries in hospital.

In Westmeath a 66-year -old truck driver died on Friday when his lorry was involved in a collision with another truck at Crookedwood. The dead man was named as Sean Egenton from Oldcastle in Co Meath. Gardaí said the other driver was unhurt in the collision.

A woman who was killed in an accident on Thursday at Batterstown in Co Meath, was named over the weekend as Marie Grimes, 59, of Kildalkey, also in Co Meath.