Three die in single-car Christmas road accidents

THE Christmas holiday period has been marked by a series of single-vehicle collisions that have claimed the lives of three young men in separate accidents.

The festive season deaths brought the total number of people killed on roads in the Republic so far this year to 363.

The first road traffic accident victim was a 27-year-old man involved in a collision in the early hours of Christmas Eve near Naas, Co Kildare.