{"id":366991,"date":"2026-03-26T23:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/366991\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T23:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:17:10","slug":"miracle-nobody-seriously-hurt-as-car-mounts-footpath-on-main-thoroughfare-in-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/366991\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Miracle\u2019 nobody seriously hurt as car mounts footpath on main thoroughfare in Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIT WAS a miracle nobody was hurt or worse,\u201d an eyewitness told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> Live after a car mounted a footpath on O\u2019Connell Street.<\/p>\n<p>The unusual road traffic incident occurred close to the junction of Lower Cecil Street and the city\u2019s main thoroughfare on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WhatsApp_Image_2026-03-25_at_12.06.33_(2)_-_Edited-1774535397376.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>One eyewitness said: \u201cIt was an elderly lady driving. It looked like she must have hit the accelerator instead of the brake, took out the pole, drove along the footpath and became wedged between the steps to a businesses and a parked car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/local-news\/2048109\/second-option-for-new-limerick-road-features-loop-around-college.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Second option for new Limerick road features loop around college<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They added: \u201cIt was only the grace of God nobody was walking along the footpath at the time. It was around 11.30am. There are a lot of well-know businesses on that stretch so it would a busy part of town footfall wise. An ambulance was called but I don\u2019t think anybody was hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following a query from Limerick Live, a garda spokesperson confirmed officers attended the scene of a road traffic collision that occurred on O\u2019Connell Street, Limerick city on Wednesday, March 25 at approximately 11.20 am.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WhatsApp_Image_2026-03-25_at_12.06.33_-_Edited-1774535457174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA vehicle collided with a road sign and a parked vehicle. No injuries have been reported at this time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Investigations are ongoing,\u201d said the garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIT WAS a miracle nobody was hurt or worse,\u201d an eyewitness told Limerick Live after a car mounted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,44,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-366991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-limerick-city","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366991","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=366991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}