Man dies in crash with wrong-way driver on motorway

A man in his 20s died yesterday in a crash in North Cork after his car was in a collision with a four-wheel-drive travelling along a motorway in the wrong direction.

Gardaí suspect the woman driver in her 70s took a wrong exit at a junction resulting in the horrific crash on the Cork-Dublin motorway at about 2.40pm.

Motorists in the other carriageway of the M8 saw her driving her Toyota Land Cruiser south on the northbound carriageway and had beeped and waved frantically to warn her.