{"id":303459,"date":"2026-02-18T01:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303459\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:38:07","slug":"teenager-16-injured-in-dublin-hit-and-run-road-traffic-incident-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303459\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager (16) injured in Dublin hit-and-run road traffic incident \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A 16-year-old boy was injured after he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\">struck by a car<\/a> in Finglas, west <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a>, on Tuesday evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The motorist failed to remain at the scene of the incident which occurred at Valley Park Drive, Dublin 11, shortly after 7pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> and emergency services attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The teenage boy was treated on site before being brought to hospital for further assessment. His injures are not life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with information is asked to contact garda\u00ed.Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The collision occurred very close to the scene of a fatal scrambler incident which claimed the life of 16-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/01\/26\/justice-for-grace-more-than-1000-take-part-in-walk-for-teen-killed-in-finglas-crash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/01\/26\/justice-for-grace-more-than-1000-take-part-in-walk-for-teen-killed-in-finglas-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grace Lynch<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Earlier on Tuesday, Grace\u2019s parents Siobh\u00e1n and Martin Lynch met Minister for Transport Darragh O\u2019Brien and Minister of State for Road Safety Se\u00e1n Canney to discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2026\/02\/17\/ban-on-scramblers-in-public-places-expected-in-matter-of-weeks-darragh-obrien-confirms\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2026\/02\/17\/ban-on-scramblers-in-public-places-expected-in-matter-of-weeks-darragh-obrien-confirms\/\">the Government\u2019s plan to prohibit the use of scramblers<\/a> in public through what she has termed \u2018Grace\u2019s Law\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Following the meeting, O\u2019Brien confirmed the regulations should be introduced within \u201ca matter of weeks\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old boy was injured after he was struck by a car in Finglas, west Dublin, on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,615,42,43,11318,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-303459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-dublin","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-road-safety","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303459","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=303459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}