Two road deaths brings total to 141

TWO more deaths on the country’s roads in less than 24 hours has brought the total killed so far in 2009 to 141, which compares with 156 on the same date last year.

A 50-year-old father-of-four died less than 100 metres from his Co Cork home when he was struck by a car. James O’Sullivan was walking home from Fermoy when the accident occurred at about 11.25pm last Sunday.

He was pronounced dead at the scene, near Grange Cross, by a local doctor and his body was taken to Cork University Hospital for a postmortem.