Wrong-way crash survivor ‘cannot believe it has happened again’

Róisín Stakelum was driving to the airport in 2023 for a holiday before a planned emigration to Australia when she was hit by a car driving the wrong way.

The scene on the M9 after last week’s catastrophic crash (Picture: PA) A woman seriously injured in a wrong-way motorway crash in Ireland three years ago said she ‘absolutely cannot believe it’s happened again’. Róisín Stakelum was driving to the airport on July 1, 2023, for a holiday before a planned emigration to Aus

Woman seriously injured in a similar crash in Co Cork three years ago speaks of long-lasting physical and psychological toll

A woman seriously injured in a wrong-way motorway crash three years ago has said the M9 collision last weekend has "brought it all back" for her.

Five teenagers were killed when the car they were travelling in was driven the wrong way down the M9 in Co Kildare and hit another vehicle.

Róisín Stakelum survived a strikingly similar collision than the one that claimed the lives of five teenagers on the M9 in Ireland and left a family in hospital