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 mo

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A head on crash with a car understood to have been travelling on the wrong side of the M9 in County Kildare, Ireland, has led to 'a number of fatalities'

Three young women and a child who were left with serious injuries were travelling to Dublin Airport when crash occurred