Teenage passenger dies in Kildare crash as gardaí appeal for witnesses

The road remains closed pending examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators. Local diversions are in place.

A passenger in a pick-up truck has died following a single-vehicle collision in Newbridge, Co Kildare.

He died at Naas General Hospital on Thursday night after the incident on Barrettstown Road, which occurred shortly after 8pm. He is the 72nd person to die on Irish roads this year.