{"id":251012,"date":"2026-01-18T10:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251012\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T10:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:58:09","slug":"lucky-escape-for-driver-as-car-flips-on-side-in-corks-biggest-town-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251012\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky escape for driver as car flips on side in Cork&#8217;s biggest town at night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garda\u00ed and firefighters rushed to the scene<\/p>\n<p>07:42, 18 Jan 2026Updated 07:47, 18 Jan 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2_WhatsApp-Image-2026-01-18-at-073300jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"The car flipped at the church roundabout in Carrigaline\" loading=\"eager\"  \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"The car flipped at the church roundabout in Carrigaline\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">The car flipped at the church roundabout in Carrigaline(Image: Darragh Murphy)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A driver luckily escaped with no injuries after a collision at a roundabout in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corkbeo.ie\/all-about\/carrigaline\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Carrigaline Link opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Carrigaline <\/a>last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The incident occurred at approximately 9.10pm on Saturday, during which a car was involved in a single-vehicle collision in the centre of the town near the Church of Our Lady and Saint John. The vehicle became stuck on its side on a roundabout in front of a religious grotto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Garda\u00ed and members of <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corkbeo.ie\/all-about\/cork-county-fire-service\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Carrigaline Fire BrigadeLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Carrigaline Fire Brigade<\/a> rushed to the scene and the road was cordoned off. The town&#8217;s firefighters also launched an appeal for locals to avoid the area on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corkbeo.ie\/all-about\/social-media\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"social mediaLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">social media<\/a> as emergency services dealt with the incident. The fire service later confirmed that all occupants of the vehicle made it out &#8220;safe and sound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/617535948_1215053220751854_6127978101892862690_n.jpg\" alt=\"Members of Carrigaline Fire Brigade at the incident\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Members of Carrigaline Fire Brigade at the incident\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Members of Carrigaline Fire Brigade at the incident(Image: Carrigaline Fire &amp; Rescue \/ Facebook)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The car was cleared from the road later that night and the roundabout has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A Garda spokesperson also confirmed there were no injuries in a statement: &#8220;Garda\u00ed attended the scene of a single-vehicle road traffic collision that occurred on the Cork Road in Carrigaline at approximately 9:10pm this evening, Saturday 17th January 2026. No injuries were reported.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Sign up <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corkbeo.ie\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=df8d6f09-ae48-4c50-92e5-a495d5d24ef0&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">here for our daily newsletter<\/a> and get breaking news and top stories from Cork Beo direct to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed and firefighters rushed to the scene 07:42, 18 Jan 2026Updated 07:47, 18 Jan 2026 The car flipped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35286,7782,61,60,43,3011],"class_list":{"0":"post-251012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-carrigaline","9":"tag-gardai","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-traffic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251012","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=251012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}