{"id":405038,"date":"2026-04-18T11:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/405038\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:40:08","slug":"breaking-three-young-men-hospitalised-following-serious-road-traffic-collision-in-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/405038\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Three young men hospitalised following serious road traffic collision in Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THREE young men have been hospitalised &#8211; one with serious injuries &#8211; following a road traffic collision on the outskirts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> city early this Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It occurred on the R445 Dublin Road in Limerick city shortly before 5am.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed, Limerick Fire and Rescue Service and paramedics with the National Ambulance Service attended the scene of a single-vehicle collision involving a van.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A number of photos and videos of the collision have been widely shared on social media. They purportedly show a number of cars that were parked up for the night being damaged.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following a query from Limerick Live, a garda spokesperson said the three occupants of the van &#8211; all male and aged in their mid teens, late teens and 20s &#8211; were transported to University Hospital Limerick for medical assessment following the collision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe male, aged in his 20s, sustained serious injuries. The scene has been preserved for a technical examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators and local traffic diversions are currently in effect,\u201d said a garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/community\/2062961\/over-65k-raised-for-devoted-limerick-husband-and-father-of-10-beautiful-children-after-multiple-strokes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Over \u20ac65k raised for &#8216;devoted Limerick husband and father of 10 beautiful children&#8217; after multiple strokes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Dublin Road is currently closed from the Pennywell Road to the St Patrick&#8217;s Road junction (picture below). There is heavy traffic in the area and motorists are advised to avoid the area where possible.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WhatsApp_Image_2026-04-18_at_10.23.13-1776507255124.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the collision to come forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoad users with camera footage (including dash-cam) who were travelling on Dublin Road, Limerick city, at the time are asked to make this footage available to investigating Garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone with information is asked to contact Henry Street garda station on 061 212400, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station,\u201d said the garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THREE young men have been hospitalised &#8211; one with serious injuries &#8211; following a road traffic collision on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,44,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-405038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-headlines","tag-limerick-city","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405038","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=405038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}