Two truck drivers were injured after their vehicles collided in Co Carlow this morning.
The collision happened on Carlow Road between Ballon and Bunclody at about 7 a.m. The two men were taken to St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny. One man is believed to in a serious condition.
Yesterday the number of people killed on roads in the State rose to 238 when a 24-year-old woman died when her car crashed on the Westport-Louisburgh road in Co Mayo.
Earlier Mr Ben Hennessy (34), Tullow Road, Carlow, and Mr P.J. Culleton (27), Little Barrack Street, Carlow, died following a collision with another car at Myra, three miles on the Tullamore side of Mountmellick, at 7.55 a.m.