Four killed in weekend road accidents

A YOUNG man and woman who died in a Co Offaly car crash on Saturday morning were among four people to lose their lives in weekend road accidents.

They were in a car that crashed at Doon Cross, Ballinahown. Another young man who was in the car was taken to Tullamore General Hospital with serious injuries.

Gardaí in Athlone are investigating the tragedy, but the names of the two victims had not been released last night. It is understood that formal identification of one of the remains was still being carried out.

A 23-year-old man, believed to be from Lithuania, died in hospital yesterday after a late night crash in Cork on Saturday. He was the driver of a car that crashed into a tree at Cooney’s Lane in the southside suburb of Grange at about midnight.

The man was taken to Cork University Hospital after the accident but died of his injuries there yesterday morning.

In Galway, a nurse in her 40s was killed in a car crash in Connemara on Saturday night.

The woman was named locally last night as Mary Dillane from Inverin, a married mother who had worked as a nurse in Galway city.

She was the driver of one of two cars that crashed at Minna, Inverin, on the road between Spiddal and Carraroe. The driver and passenger from the other car were in a comfortable condition at University College Hospital Galway last night, according to a HSE spokesperson.

The latest tragedies bring the death toll on the republic’s roads so far this month to 15, and to 145 for the year to date.