FOUR PEOPLE have lost their lives so far this Bank Holiday weekend on the nation’s roads.

The latest death came this morning shortly after 7am, when a 20-year-old male driver struck a wall just off the Ballygall Road, east of Glasnevin on the north side of Dublin.

A 21-year-old passenger also in the car was seriously injured, and the road remains closed.

His death came just a few hours after a 20-year-old woman was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Wexford town in the early hours of the morning. The car involved, RTÉ reports, was found burnt-out nearby a short time later.

Gardaí had been alerted to the car, which had been seen speeding earlier in the night, and there had been a squad car about 500m from the site when it occurred, but the speeding car was not being pursued at the time.

Yesterday a man in his sixties was killed on the Donegal town by-pass in a two-car collision, while another man of the same age died in a two-car crash on the N9 outside Leighlinbridge in Co Carlow yesterday morning.