{"id":360049,"date":"2026-03-22T23:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360049\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T23:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:32:07","slug":"man-20s-seriously-injured-in-scrambler-bike-crash-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360049\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (20s) seriously injured in scrambler bike crash \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garda\u00ed<\/a> have appealed for witnesses after a man in his early 20s was seriously injured when the electric scrambler bike he was driving crashed in Co Clare<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Emergency services responded to reports of the incident shortly after 11.30pm on Saturday at B\u00f3thar na Luachra in Shannon.<\/p>\n

The driver was taken by ambulance to University Hospital Limerick<\/a> with serious injuries.<\/p>\n

The scene was preserved for examination by Garda forensic collision investigators. Local traffic diversions remained in place on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed in Shannon are appealing for anyone who witnessed the crash to contact them on (061) 365 900, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.<\/p>\n

Road users who may have camera or dashcam footage are asked to make it available to investigators.<\/p>\n

Regulations to ban scramblers outright in public places are due to be signed into law this month.<\/p>\n

It will be known as Grace\u2019s Law following the death in January of Grace Lynch<\/a> (16), who was fatally injured by a scrambler bike on a pedestrian crossing on the Ratoath Road in Finglas, Dublin.<\/p>\n

The Government has had the power since 2023 to impose an explicit ban on such vehicles but the regulations were delayed due to \u201ccompeting\u201d interests in the Department of Transport<\/a> across 2\u00bd years.<\/p>\n

Records show the Garda asked the department \u2013 almost a year before Lynch was killed \u2013 about the progress of regulations after it was informed by Fingal County Council<\/a> that it had passed a motion raising concerns about the number of scrambler incidents in its area.<\/p>\n

Minutes and records of eight meetings between An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na and the department, released under freedom-of-information legislation, show the regulations were consistently raised between 2023 and earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The Government moved to enact the regulations shortly after Lynch\u2019s death. <\/p>\n

T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris<\/a> said at the time of the teenager\u2019s death that he did not have \u201ca satisfactory answer\u201d for why the regulations had not been implemented sooner and that it was \u201cnot an acceptable situation\u201d.<\/p>\n

An 18-year-old male has been charged with dangerous driving causing her death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have appealed for witnesses after a man in his early 20s was seriously injured when the electric…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,15469,7941,12845,61,60,43,17229],"class_list":["post-360049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-clare","tag-department-of-transport","tag-fingal-county-council","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-university-hospital-limerick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360049","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=360049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}