Five teenagers dead after crash involving car on wrong side of motorway

The scene on the M9 northbound at Junction 3 in Co Kildare, where five people have died and others have been seriously injured (Niall Carson/PA) - (PA Wire)

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 Co Kildare.

Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly has described the head-on collision between two cars on the M9 as “horrific” and warned that “in some cases” vehicles are being driven on the wrong side of motorways for social media likes.