Man in 80s killed after driving wrong way

A collision yesterday on the main Dublin-Cork route was the third fatal incident in the last three years to involve an elderly motorist driving the wrong way on motorways in Cork.

The incident occurred when the driver of a Tipperary South-registered 4x4 was going the wrong way up the motorway. He was killed in a head-on collision with a newspaper delivery van.

It happened on the southbound carriageway of the M8, just south of the village of Rathcormac, close to junction 16.