Five teenagers killed and four other people injured in Ireland car crash

Police say one of the two vehicles involved was driving in the wrong direction on the M9 motorway in County Kildare Five teenagers have died and four other people have been seriously injured in a crash involving a car driving in the wrong direction on a motorway in Ireland , police have said. Gardaí confirmed the bodies of the youths, all male, had been removed from the scene of the two-vehicle collision, which happened in the early hours of Sunday on the M9 in County Kildare. The force said the occupants of the second vehicle involved, three women, two in their 30s and one in her 20s, and a boy, all remained in hospital with serious injuries. Garda commissioner Justin Kelly described the head-on collision between the two cars as “horrific” and said “in some cases” vehicles were being driven on the wrong side of motorways for social media likes. Last weekend, nine people were injured in a head-on collision on the M50 in Dublin involving a car travelling in the wrong direction.

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