Four young men among five killed on roads over weekend

FOUR young men under 30, including two in their teens, were among the five people killed on the country’s roads over the weekend.

The latest deaths — two in the early hours of yesterday — brought to 274 the number of people killed on the roads this year.

Just before 2am yesterday, a 22-year-old man was killed when the car in which he was a passenger overturned and collided with an embankment at Forenaughts Little in Co Kildare. His body was taken to Naas General Hospital for a postmortem examination.