{"id":355433,"date":"2026-03-20T03:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355433\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T03:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:07:08","slug":"woman-50s-airlifted-to-hospital-with-serious-injuries-after-multi-vehicle-collision-in-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355433\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 50s, airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after multi-vehicle collision in Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TWO drivers were rushed to hospital following a multi-vehicle collision in County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> this Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Gardai, firefighters and paramedics with the National Ambulance Service all attended the aftermath of the incident on the N21.<\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson said emergency services attended the scene of a three-car road traffic collision on the N21 at Rathkeale, shortly before 1.15pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe driver of one of the cars, a male juvenile, was brought by ambulance for treatment of serious but non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe driver of a second car, a woman aged in her 50s, was airlifted to Cork University Hospital for treatment of serious, but non-life-threatening injuries,\u201d said the garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/motoring-news\/2042573\/limerick-bridge-struck-by-van-driver-for-second-time-in-just-over-two-weeks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick bridge struck by van driver for second time in just over two weeks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No other injuries have been reported at this time. The road has since reopened after the injured people were removed to hospital and the damaged vehicles towed away.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have witnessed the collision, or have dash-cam footage, is asked to come forward and assist gardai with their enquiries.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Newcastle West garda station on 069 20650, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TWO drivers were rushed to hospital following a multi-vehicle collision in County Limerick this Thursday. Gardai, firefighters and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,2177,61,60,43,39830],"class_list":["post-355433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-county-limerick","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-rathkeale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355433","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=355433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}