Another Ballymac Road Death.

Earlier on Saturday morning a local lorry driver lost his life in a tragic accident at the Ballymac service station just off the roundabout north of Dundalk.

Reports say that the lorry was travelling in the direction of Dundalk, and it is believed that the driver took evasive action to avoid colliding with a vehicle which had left the filling station directly into his path.

In his efforts to avoid a collision his truck mounted the steep bank just opposite the filling station and overturned, and he is believed to have died at the scene.

This is fast becoming an accident black-spot with several deaths having previously occurred in the same area.

The high volume of traffic to this service station is mainly Northern Ireland trucks and cars availing of the better Euro prices in the south.

This traffic volume makes a U turn when leaving the station to go back to the roundabout, and countless times in any given day, traffic passing by is confronted with 40 foot truck and trailer rigs broadside on the road while making an about turn.

Something needs to be done to curtail this U turning, before more lives are surely lost at this location.