One killed as lorry hits three houses

A LORRY driver was killed when his out-of-control milk tanker ploughed into three houses, narrowly missing several people including a mother and her sleeping teenage son.

The lorry driver, who was in his 50s and a foreign national, died at the scene on the main street of Emyvale village in Co Monaghan.

The milk tanker completely demolished a cottage by the N2 motorway, but the owner was in Scotland on holiday.