{"id":101934,"date":"2025-10-24T17:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/101934\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T17:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:42:11","slug":"breaking-traffic-is-chaos-as-emergency-services-rush-to-second-collision-in-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/101934\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: \u2018Traffic is chaos\u2019 as emergency services rush to second collision in Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GARDAI, firefighters and paramedics have all rushed to a road traffic collision on the outskirts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> city this Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>It occurred around 3pm on the Ballysimon Road &#8211; between the Groody Roundabout and the Ballysimon interchange.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/motoring-news\/1927119\/breaking-major-traffic-delays-following-collision-on-main-limerick-road.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BREAKING: Major traffic delays following collision on main Limerick road<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One person, who is caught up in the backlog, told Limerick Live: \u201cTraffic is chaos and it\u2019s approaching rush hour on a bank holiday weekend too when some people will be leaving early.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is not known, at this time, how many vehicles are involved, or the seriousness of any injuries suffered, if any.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp_Image_2025-10-24_at_15.26.49-1761316976115.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Gardai have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services have also responded to a road traffic incident between Bruree and Charleville on the main Limerick-Cork road this Friday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GARDAI, firefighters and paramedics have all rushed to a road traffic collision on the outskirts of Limerick city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,63140,61,60,44,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-101934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-ballysimon","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-limerick-city","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}