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15/09/2009
More Deaths Despite Weekend Of Road Carnage
Two more people have been killed in separate accidents on Ireland's roads.
Monday's fresh fatalaties come after a weekend of carnage that claimed three lives.
In the first incident, a 32-year-old male driver of a van was fatally injured when his vehicle collided with a stationary combine harvester. Nobody else was injured in the crash.
Gardaí are now investigating the collision, which occured near Raphoe, Co Donegal yesterday at 4.00pm.
The dead man, who is from the Lifford area, was an employee of An Post and he was driving a postal van at the time of the collision.
The road between Raphoe and Ballindrait is closed to facilitate forensic collision investigators and will remain closed until mid-day today (Tuesday).
In latest incident, a 24-year-old man was killed when his motorcycle was in collision with a car in Co Offaly. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the car was taken to Tullamore General Hospital, but was not thought to be seriously injured.
The incident occurred at 6.50pm, near Kinnitty, in Offaly on the Roscrea to Kinnitty Road.
The road at the scene is closed pending forensic collision investigators carrying out a technical examination in the area and Gardai are investigating.
Yesterday's crashes follow a spate of separate road accidents in counties Westmeath, Kerry and Antrim over the weekend which claimed three lives, including two teenagers.
(DW/BMcC)
Monday's fresh fatalaties come after a weekend of carnage that claimed three lives.
In the first incident, a 32-year-old male driver of a van was fatally injured when his vehicle collided with a stationary combine harvester. Nobody else was injured in the crash.
Gardaí are now investigating the collision, which occured near Raphoe, Co Donegal yesterday at 4.00pm.
The dead man, who is from the Lifford area, was an employee of An Post and he was driving a postal van at the time of the collision.
The road between Raphoe and Ballindrait is closed to facilitate forensic collision investigators and will remain closed until mid-day today (Tuesday).
In latest incident, a 24-year-old man was killed when his motorcycle was in collision with a car in Co Offaly. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the car was taken to Tullamore General Hospital, but was not thought to be seriously injured.
The incident occurred at 6.50pm, near Kinnitty, in Offaly on the Roscrea to Kinnitty Road.
The road at the scene is closed pending forensic collision investigators carrying out a technical examination in the area and Gardai are investigating.
Yesterday's crashes follow a spate of separate road accidents in counties Westmeath, Kerry and Antrim over the weekend which claimed three lives, including two teenagers.
(DW/BMcC)
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