{"id":282607,"date":"2026-02-05T19:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282607\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T19:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:01:07","slug":"lucky-escape-for-passengers-of-limerick-bus-as-part-of-a-van-spears-through-seats-in-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282607\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky escape for passengers of Limerick bus as part of a van spears through seats in collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PASSENGERS on a bus bound for University of Limerick had a lucky escape this morning, as part of a van speared through the top level of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/230\/community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">bus<\/a> onto empty seats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The collision between a bus and a van happened this morning, Thursday, February 5, on Upper William Street, just before the junction with High Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/business\/2007658\/fears-for-jobs-in-limerick-as-liquidator-appointed-to-discount-retailer-eurogiant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fears for jobs in Limerick as liquidator appointed to discount retailer EuroGiant<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were significant traffic delays for morning commuters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/WhatsApp_Image_2026-02-05_at_12.14.00_PM-1770300084106.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1920\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A distress call came into emergency services at 9.40am and the scene was cleared by 10am.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the fire department said: \u201cnobody was trapped or injured\u201d and garda\u00ed also attended the scene.<\/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":"PASSENGERS on a bus bound for University of Limerick had a lucky escape this morning, as part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,1396,43],"class_list":["post-282607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282607","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=282607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}