{"id":179361,"date":"2025-12-07T13:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/179361\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T13:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:40:10","slug":"infant-boy-in-critical-condition-following-two-car-collision-in-dundalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/179361\/","title":{"rendered":"Infant boy in critical condition following two car collision in Dundalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lmfm.ie\/news\/lmfm-news\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All LMFM News<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/64f03a1f335bd.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended the scene of the crash that occurred on the R132 at Dowdallshill, Dundalk, last night at approximately 8.20pm.\n        <\/p>\n<p>An infant boy is in a critical condition following a two car collision in Dundalk.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended the scene of the crash that occurred close to the junction of the R132 and N52 near Dundalk stadium, last night at approximately 8.20pm.<\/p>\n<p>The female driver of the first car, aged in her late 20s was removed from the scene to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda with non-life threatening injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The infant boy a passenger of the car, was removed to the Children&#8217;s University Hospital where he remains in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>The male driver of the second vehicle, aged in his early 50s and the female passenger, a teenager were removed from the scene to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda with non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The N52 is currently closed and awaiting Forensic Collision Investigator to conduct an examination of the scene.\u00a0 Local diversions in place.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Due to the incident the Dowdallshill Kids Christmas party, which was due to take place today, has been cancelled.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=62f5d1bc-976b-45a1-a0cb-ee4acf856ae1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68da98f645855.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All LMFM News Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended the scene of the crash that occurred on the R132&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4263,4262,42,3323,4259,4258,4265,4266,4264,4260,4261,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-179361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-drogheda-radio","9":"tag-dundalk-radio","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-job-search","12":"tag-lm-fm","13":"tag-lmfm","14":"tag-lmfm-breakfast-show","15":"tag-lmfm-late-lunch","16":"tag-lmfm-podcast","17":"tag-louth-radio","18":"tag-meath-radio","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-top-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topnews","23":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179361","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=179361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}