A NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD woman, who was a pillion passenger on a motorbike that crashed in south Galway, was one of four people who died on Irish roads over the weekend.
The motorbike crash occurred on the Gort to Loughrea road near the village of Kilchreest at about 1pm yesterday. No other vehicle is believed to have been involved.
The motorbike driver, a male, was taken to University College Hospital, Galway, where he was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
In Co Meath, Tomasz Kaminskia, 23-year-old Polish man was killed in a single-vehicle crash at Warrenstown, Drumree, in the early hours of Saturday.
The man, a front-seat passenger in the vehicle, was pronounced dead on arrival at Navan hospital. The driver, the only other occupant, is in the intensive care unit at Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown, Dublin.
In the North, two young men who were travelling in a stolen car died when it crashed into another car early yesterday morning in south Belfast. Police have appealed for witnesses.
The collision happened at about 4.30am on the flyover close to the King's Hall. The man who was in the second car was taken to hospital but, according to the PSNI, his injuries are said not to be life-threatening.
The men who were killed in the crash are said to have been in their early 20s.
Meanwhile, three men who were killed in car crashes last Thursday have been named by Garda.
Two of the victims were from Co Clare. Eamon O'Neill (19), of Granaghan Beg, Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co Clare, died in a single-vehicle collision when his car crashed on the Sixmilebridge to Newmarket-on-Fergus road in the early hours of Thursday morning.
On Friday morning Ryan Haran (23) from Lahinch Road, Ennistymon, Co Clare, was killed in a crash near his home at around 1.30am.
Latvian man Alexsadrs Alajevs (36), who lives in Mill Road, Corbally, Co Limerick, died when his car crashed at a narrow bridge at Annagh, Birr, Co Offaly, at about 7am on Thursday morning.
The five deaths bring to 87 the number of people killed on roads in the Republic so far this year.
