{"id":207626,"date":"2025-12-23T23:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/207626\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:30:08","slug":"teenager-arrested-for-endangerment-over-hit-and-run-collision-in-limerick-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/207626\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager arrested for &#8216;endangerment&#8217; over hit-and-run collision in Limerick village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GARDAI have arrested a teenager in the run-up to Christmas in connection with a hit-and-run collision in a County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> village.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, a man aged in his 30s, was out walking his dog at the time. He was struck by a silver BMW in the SuperValu car park in Castleconnell at around 11.30am on Sunday, October 19. The car was then driven off at speed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/1974120\/shots-fired-at-a-house-in-feud-related-incident-in-limerick-town.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Shots fired at a house in feud-related incident in Limerick town<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The injured party, who is from the locality, received emergency first aid at the scene before being rushed to hospital with \u201cserious injuries\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood the victim, who was in the vicinity of another man, was not the intended target of the offending driver.<\/p>\n<p>A major garda investigation commenced. Gardai located the vehicle involved in the hit-and-run collision later that Sunday afternoon in a different car park in Castleconnell, near the Shannon River. The driver had escaped on foot.<\/p>\n<p>An attempt was made to burn out the car but it is understood that the BMW was not extensively damaged. It was towed away for forensic examination by gardai.<\/p>\n<p>Gardai have now confirmed a male, aged in his late teens, was arrested on Wednesday, December 17.<\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson said it is in relation to the ongoing investigation into an incident of &#8220;endangerment&#8221; that occurred on October 19 in Castleconnell, County Limerick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has since been released from garda custody and a file will be prepared for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP),\u201d said a garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>An offence of endangerment is contrary to Section 13 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, 1997. It relates to a person who \u201cintentionally or recklessly engages in conduct which creates a substantial risk of death or serious harm to another\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The garda investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GARDAI have arrested a teenager in the run-up to Christmas in connection with a hit-and-run collision in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,2177,74165,61,60,1396,43],"class_list":["post-207626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-county-limerick","tag-dpp","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207626","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=207626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}