{"id":335442,"date":"2026-03-08T13:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/335442\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T13:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:59:08","slug":"breaking-pedestrian-rushed-to-hospital-after-being-struck-by-car-in-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/335442\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Pedestrian rushed to hospital after being struck by car in Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A PEDESTRIAN is recovering in hospital this Sunday after he was struck by a car in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> city centre.<\/p>\n<p>Gardai, Limerick Fire and Rescue Service and paramedics with the National Ambulance Service all rushed to the scene at Little Gerald Griffin Street, near William Street, at around 7pm on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Following a query from Limerick Live, a garda spokesperson confirmed emergency services attended a road traffic collision between a pedestrian and a vehicle in Limerick city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA male, aged in his 40s, was taken to University Hospital Limerick with non-life threatening injuries. Investigations are ongoing,\u201d said the garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/2032843\/breaking-limerick-man-charged-at-special-court-over-seizure-of-significant-six-figure-sum-of-drugs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick man charged at special court over seizure of \u2018significant six-figure sum\u2019 of drugs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The circumstances of the collision are not known.<\/p>\n<p>A section of Little Gerald Griffin Street was closed while the injured man was tended to by paramedics and gardai carried out enquiries. The road was reopened a short time later.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody who may have witnessed the road traffic incident, or has dash-cam footage, is asked to contact gardai in Henry Street on 061 212400, or\u00a0the\u00a0Garda\u00a0Confidential\u00a0Line\u00a0on 1800 666 111<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A PEDESTRIAN is recovering in hospital this Sunday after he was struck by a car in Limerick city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45,93,61,60,44],"class_list":["post-335442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335442","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=335442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}