Man killed in Monaghan road crash

The incident happened this morning.

A man has died in a road crash outside Monaghan town.

The crash happened at around 7.30am on the Armagh road in Knockaconny.

A lorry veered off the road and into a ditch. No other vehicles were involved.

Forensic collision investigators are currently at the scene and the N12 road remains closed.

It's the second fatality in the region in the past 24 hours after a man died in a crash outside Virginia yesterday.

That crash happened when a car hit a parked lorry on the R147 at Carnaross between Kells and Virginia shortly before 9.30pm.

A man in his 30s was killed.