Teenage passenger killed in car crash
A teenager has been killed and a pedestrian is in a serious condition in hospital following separate road collisions in Meath and Dublin.
Both incidents occured in the early hours of this morning.
Shortly after midnight, a car collided with a ditch at Ballyhack, Kilbrew close to Ashbourne. A 17-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and died later at Our Lady's Hospital in Navan.
The driver and a second passenger, also teenage boys, were uninjured.
Local diversions are in place.
Some hours later in Dublin, a male pedestrian was struck by a car on the Stillorgan dual carriageway at 3.40am.
He was taken to St Vincent's hospital where he is in a serious condition. It happened on the N11 Northbound between the Stillorgan Park Hotel and Oatlands School.
A section of the road is closed and diversions are in place.