Man dies after New Year’s Day crash

ONE person died and three others are seriously injured in hospital after car accidents.

As the dangerous road conditions continue to affect travel throughout the country, the first road traffic fatality of the year occurred on Saturday, when a man involved in a single vehicle accident in Co Limerick in the early hours of New Year’s Day passed away in hospital.

In a separate incident yesterday three men in their early 20s were hospitalised after a single vehicle accident near the village of Clara, also known as the Fox and Goose, in Co Kilkenny on the main Carlow-Kilkenny N9 road, where road conditions were treacherous. One of the passengers in the car was in a critical condition in St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny last night. The two other occupants of the car were in a stable condition yesterday.