Multiple people dead after car drives wrong way on motorway

Craig Munro | Senior Politics Reporter Published August 16, 2026 10:36am Updated August 16, 2026 10:37am Emergency services were called to the scene in the early hours of this morning (Picture: Alamy Stock Photo) A number of people are dead and four have been taken to hospital after a car drove the wrong way along a motorway in Ireland. Among the passengers injured in the crash in Co Kildare early this morning was a child, who remains in a serious condition. Gardaí, the Irish police force, said the ‘head-on collision’ took place on the northbound stretch of the M9 road at around 3am. The female driver and front passenger in the second car, both in their 30s, remain in a critical condition at Tallaght University Hospital. Another woman in her 20s, who was a passenger in the rear seat, is al