26/11/2007

Border Road Crash Claims Young Life

A young man, aged 21, has been killed and three other people have been injured in a car accident near Muff, County Donegal, just across the border with Northern Ireland.

The man who died is believed to have been driving. No other vehicle was involved in the crash which happened at Drumhaggart at 4.30am on Sunday.

One of the injured is in a critical condition and has been taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.

Another is in a serious condition in Letterkenny Hospital and the third is ill but stable in Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry.

(BMcC)




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