Two women have died after separate car crashes, bringing to eight the number of people who have died on Irish roads in the past four days.
A total of 157 people have died in road crashes so far this year, an increase of 31 on the same period last year, which was the safest year on record.
A woman in her 20s died in a single-vehicle crash in Co Dublin last night, when the car she was travelling in crashed into a wall on the Rush Road in Skerries at around 12.30am.
The woman was a front-seat passenger in the car.
The driver of the car, a man in his 20s, and a second female passenger were both taken to Beaumont Hospital.
Elsewhere, a woman in her 80s who was seriously injured when her car veered off the road and hit a wall in Co Roscommon has died in hospital.
The incident happened on the N60 at Corrastoona Beg, Castlerea, Co Roscommon on Sunday afternoon.
The woman died in University Hospital Galway yesterday afternoon.
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