{"id":275995,"date":"2026-02-01T22:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/275995\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:20:08","slug":"several-people-injured-following-crash-involving-garda-squad-car-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/275995\/","title":{"rendered":"Several people injured following crash involving Garda squad car \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A number of people required hospital medical treatment after a three-vehicle crash in west Dublin, one of which was a marked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">Garda<\/a> car. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The emergency services responded to reports of the incident on Sunday morning in Walkinstown, with several people taken to hospital by ambulance for treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In response to queries, Garda Headquarters said the three-vehicle crash occurred on Cromwellsfort Road, Walkinstown, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-12\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-12\/\">Dublin 12<\/a>, at about 11.20am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cOne of the cars involved in this collision was an official Garda vehicle,\u201d it said. \u201cA number of people were taken from the scene to hospital to be treated for non-life threatening injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In cases where serious injury or loss of life occurs in a crashes, or any other incidents, involving Garda members the cases must be referred to Fiosr\u00fa, formerly the Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na Ombudsman Commission, for investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">However, it was not immediately clear whether the crash in Walkinstown on Sunday was serious enough to warrant a referral to the Garda oversight agency for independent review. Fiosr\u00fa has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of people required hospital medical treatment after a three-vehicle crash in west Dublin, one of which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,71658,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-275995","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-dublin-12","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275995","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=275995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}