Three people died and four others were injured in separate road traffic collisions in Donegal and Dublin on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Saturday afternoon, garda\u00ed and emergency services personnel responded to reports of a multi-vehicle crash on the N15 in Birchill in Co Donegal shortly after 2pm.<\/p>\n
Two of the occupants of one vehicles involved – a man aged in his 20s and a man aged in his 30s – were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Their remains have since been removed to Letterkenny Univerity Hospital where post-mortem examinations will take place in due course.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A further two occupants of the same vehicle – a woman in her 20s and a man in his 20s – were taken to Letterkenny University for treatment of injuries believed to be non life-threatening.<\/p>\n
Two occupants in the second vehicle involved – a man and a woman in their 40s – are also being treated for non-life-threatening injuries at Letterkenny University Hospital.<\/p>\n
Garda forensics are due to undergo a technical examination of the scene and the road has been closed.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in Dublin, a woman died after being struck by a car on Saturday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed say the fatal collision occurred on the N11 Bray Road in Loughlinstown at approximately 11.50pm when a car struck a pedestrian.<\/p>\n
The pedestrian, a woman in her 20\u2019s, was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n
The coroner has been notified and the scene has been reserved pending an examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators. Local traffic diversions have also been put in place in the area.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed have issued and appeal for witnesses to both crashes, with anyone who may have information urged to contact the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.<\/p>\n
Investigations into the collisions are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people died and four others were injured in separate road traffic collisions in Donegal and Dublin on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7782,42,43,11318,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-453191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-gardai","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-road-safety","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}