'Social media trend' blamed as five balaclava-wearing teens die in head-on motorway crash

Five people died and four people were seriously injured after a horror head-on collision occurred on the motorway in the early hours of Sunday (August 16) in County Kildare

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The car in which five teenagers died in an early-morning crash was driven on the wrong side of the motorway twice in a matter of minutes, it has emerged

Sources say the BMW occupants were wearing balaclavas or masks when the car ploughed head-on into a family's vehicle on the M9 in Co Kildare

Four people including a seven-year-old child are also seriously injured following the crash on the M9 in County Kildare

Social media trend linked to fatal motorway crash that killed five teenagers  lbc.co.uk

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