4 KILLED IN CRASH HORROR
CARNAGE ON OUR ROADS Tragic US tourists die after car and truck collision
FOUR people were killed last night in a horrific crash involving a car and a lorry.
The victims – believed to be a woman, her husband and two other men, all from the US – were in the car.
They were pronounced dead on the N25 New Ross to Ballinaboule road in Co Wexford.
The lorry driver and passenger escaped without injury. One shocked local said online: “Very, very sad
news at the mouth of Christmas, God bless their families tonight.”
Another said: “So sad RIP. My thoughts and prayers are with their families and loved ones and the truck driver at this sad time.”
It is thought those in the car were travelling in a convoy with another vehicle towards Cushinstown from New Ross.
Emergency services were called to the scene but all occupants, three male and one female, were pronounced dead.
The cause of the crash is not yet known and gardai said conditions on the road were good at the time of the accident.
They are investigating whether the driver of the car may have attempted to turn on the road just before the collision.
The route was closed by crash investigators and will remain shut until later today.
Last month, two people died following a crash on the N25 between Wexford and Waterford.
Sylvester and Ann Dempsey died instantly when their Renault Clio car smashed with an on-coming SUV.
And in September, US tourists James Baker 62, from Columbia, Indiana, and Peggy Sue Adams 59, from Ohio, were killed in Cork on the fourth day of their Irish holiday.