{"id":408423,"date":"2026-04-20T15:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408423\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:22:08","slug":"breaking-emergency-services-attend-serious-road-traffic-collision-in-county-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408423\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Emergency services attend serious road traffic collision in County Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EMERGENCY services are at the scene of a serious road traffic collision in County Limerick this Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>It occurred at the Cross of Knocklong on the R513 between Hospital and Knocklong at around noon.<\/p>\n<p>Following a query from Limerick Live, a garda spokesperson confirmed garda\u00ed and emergency services are currently at the scene of a two-vehicle road traffic collision involving a car and a truck near Knocklong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne person has been conveyed to hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. The road remains open at this time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As this is an ongoing incident no further information is available,\u201d said a garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/deaths\/2065580\/there-was-a-lot-of-silent-sitting-last-night-limerick-priest-visits-faulkner-family-after-second-tragedy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8216;There was a lot of silent sitting last night&#8217;: Limerick priest visits Faulkner family after second tragedy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Firefighters from Kilmallock and paramedics from the national ambulance service have also responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>There are traffic delays due to the collision and motorists are advised to avoid the area where possible.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EMERGENCY services are at the scene of a serious road traffic collision in County Limerick this Monday afternoon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,2177,3175,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-408423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-county-limerick","tag-hospital","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408423","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=408423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}