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27/07/2009
Road Accidents Leave Two Dead
A young father of three and another man have been killed in separate road traffic accidents over the weekend.
The tragic dad was critically injured in an horrific road crash on the outskirts of Limerick city on Friday.
The man, named locally as Nigel Bucke, 29, from Dromcollogher, Co Limerick, was the driver of a silver Volkswagen Passat which collided with an articulated truck on the Condell Road shortly before 10am.
Mr Bucke was immediately rushed to the Mid Western Regional Hospital where he was treated at the Intensive Care Unit before he died from his injuries on Saturday night.
His three children, aged from two to 11, were treated for minor injuries.
Meanwhile, Dabhog Kierse, 22, from Crookstown, Macroom, Co Cork, was killed after the car he was driving collided with two others on the N22 at Slivereagh, Ballyvourney, Co Cork, at 9am on Saturday.
The car he was driving was broken in two in the collision. A second man was taken to Cork University Hospital with injuries but they are not life-threatening.
(BMcC/JM)
The tragic dad was critically injured in an horrific road crash on the outskirts of Limerick city on Friday.
The man, named locally as Nigel Bucke, 29, from Dromcollogher, Co Limerick, was the driver of a silver Volkswagen Passat which collided with an articulated truck on the Condell Road shortly before 10am.
Mr Bucke was immediately rushed to the Mid Western Regional Hospital where he was treated at the Intensive Care Unit before he died from his injuries on Saturday night.
His three children, aged from two to 11, were treated for minor injuries.
Meanwhile, Dabhog Kierse, 22, from Crookstown, Macroom, Co Cork, was killed after the car he was driving collided with two others on the N22 at Slivereagh, Ballyvourney, Co Cork, at 9am on Saturday.
The car he was driving was broken in two in the collision. A second man was taken to Cork University Hospital with injuries but they are not life-threatening.
(BMcC/JM)
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