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Five teenagers have died in a tragic head-on collision on an Irish motorway after their car reportedly drove in the wrong direction. Post-mortems are underway, and four other individuals are in serious condition.
Gardaí will receive new pursuit training this year, as confirmed by the justice minister, following a fatal collision on the M9 motorway. This initiative aims to enhance officer safety and operational effectiveness during vehicle pursuits.
A section of the M9 motorway in Carlow, Ireland, has been closed to traffic following a road traffic collision.
A collision between a car and a trailer on Monday claimed six lives on the National Highway in Sindh’s Naushahro Feroze District, officials said. Naushahro Feroze Senior Superintendent of Police Mir Rohal Khoso told Dawn that all six people who died were travelling in the car, while the trailer’s driver was injured. He said the accident took place between 5am and 6am, adding that “ostensibly, speeding and brake failure were probable reasons,” but the matter was being probed further. SSP Khoso elaborated that one side of the National Highway in the district was under construction, which was a “contributory factor behind increasing accidents”. He stated that, in collaboration with the motorway police, it has been decided to set up five points for checking the speed and fitness of vehicles to control the rise in accidents. Sindh Inspector General (IG) Javed Alam Odho, in a statement, ordered the Naushahro Feroze SSP to probe the accident and register a case. Expressing his grief over the loss of lives, IG Odho ordered that legal action be taken against those responsible after determining the causes behind the accident. Fatal road accidents on highways occur frequently in Pakistan, with the main reasons including speeding, hazardous overtaking, and disregard for traffic rules. On Sunday, at least 11 people were killed and eight were injured after a bus collided with a trailer on the National Highway near Tando Masti in Sindh’s Khairpur district. A day before that, 13 people died in a traffic accident involving an oil tanker and a passenger bus on the M9 Motorway near Karachi. Crackdown against overloading and speeding ordered In his statement, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah expressed his grief over the loss of lives in the accident and conveyed his condolences to the bereaved families. “We share the grief of the bereaved families,” he was quoted as saying in the statement issued by his spokesperson, Abdul Rasheed Channa. The statement said that the car involved in the incident was heading from Larkana Division’s Nasirabad taluka to Karachi. CM Murad also issued directives for the strict implementation of traffic rules and regulations. He ordered the Sindh IG to carry out a “crackdown against overloading and speeding”. He further directed that monitoring and fitness checks of vehicles be made more stringent across the province. “The protection of the public’s life and property is the government’s top responsibility,” the chief minister noted.
A black BMW was observed driving the wrong way on the M9 motorway up to three times before being involved in a fatal 3 am crash, with sources suggesting the masked occupants sought a chase with police.
Police say one of the two vehicles involved was driving in the wrong direction on the M9 motorway in County Kildare Five teenagers have died and four other people have been seriously injured in a crash involving a car driving in the wrong direction on a motorway in Ireland, police have said. Gardaí confirmed the bodies of the youths, all male, had been removed from the scene of the two-vehicle collision, which happened in the early hours of Sunday on the M9 in County Kildare. Continue readin...
PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari inaugurated the 39km-long signal-free Shahrah-i-Bhutto, connecting Qayyumabad to the M9 Motorway, and launched a new port corridor project. These initiatives aim to improve infrastructure and connectivity.
Five teenage boys, aged between 15 and 18, were killed in a horrific car crash on the M9 motorway in Ireland when their vehicle was driven the wrong way. Post-mortem examinations are being carried out on the victims.
Multiple people were killed and several others, including a child, were seriously injured in a head-on collision on the M9 motorway in Ireland. The crash occurred when a car was driving the wrong way.
Two police personnel were killed when a speeding dumper truck collided with their parked police van on the M9 Motorway in Karachi, Pakistan.