THE YOUNG woman who lost her life at Fahan overnight was the eleventh person to die on Donegal roads so far in 2016.
The 25-year-old died in a two-car collision on the Burnfoot-Buncrana road .
The eleven deaths so far on Donegal’s roads in 2016 is the same number as in 2015.
In 2014, nine people died on the county’s roads, rising to 11 last year.
In 2013, when nine a Road Safety Authority study revealed that Donegal’s rate of 81 deaths per million population was twice the national average.
This year, Donegal was torn by 24 hours of carnage at the end of July when five young people, between the ages of 19 and 28, lost their lives in two separate road traffic accidents.
19-year-old Dermot Boyle and 28-year-old Barney McGinley died when their car collided head-on with a van on the N13 dual carriageway at Trimragh at around 4.45am one morning.
Their names had just been released when, just a few miles away, at Corravaddy, Drumkeen, two men and one woman were fatally injured in a two-car collision at 1am the following morning.
Three friends – 19-year-old Steven McGrath, 20-year-old Teresa Robinson and and Kaylem Ó Murachaidh (19) – were killed instantly when the two cars crashed.
In early August, 34-year-old Belfast man, Ciaran Parker, from Whiterock in Belfast, died as a result of injuries he sustained when his car collided with a lorry at Tullyrap on the main Letterkenny-Lifford road.
His was the sixth death on Donegal’s roads in a week.
In September, two women died in a single-vehicle accident on the Glenfin Road, Ballybofey.
A 38-year-old mother-of-three, Maria Wallace-Carlin from Derry and 19-year-old Dublin native Kiara Baird died when their Citroen C3 car left the road.