A car involved in an early-morning crash, which claimed the life a teenage boy and injured five others, had come to the attention of Gardaí beforehand.
A male passenger aged in his teens was killed in the two-vehicle collision that took place on the M8 at Ballybeg in Mitchelstown, Co Cork at approximately 1am this Saturday morning.
Four other occupants of the car in which the deceased was a passenger suffered non-life threatening injuries in the crash. They included the driver, a male youth in his teens, and three other passengers - an adult male aged in his teens, a female youth aged in her teens and a male youth. The injured parties were all transported to Cork University Hospital.
