{"id":445906,"date":"2026-05-13T01:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/445906\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T01:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:20:11","slug":"alert-caution-urged-following-collision-involving-taxi-on-busy-limerick-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/445906\/","title":{"rendered":"ALERT: Caution urged following collision involving taxi on busy Limerick road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOTORISTS travelling on the main <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/131\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick to Cork road<\/a> are being urged to exercise caution following a road traffic collision this Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, which involved a taxi, happened at around 6.30pm on the N20 near its junction with the L1478 at Fanningstown, close to the Croom Bypass.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A significant number of emergency service personnel including gardai, several units from Limerick County Fire and Rescue service and paramedics from the National Ambulance Service all attended the scene for over an hour.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/2081636\/limerick-man-with-considerable-cv-tells-judge-it-s-great-to-see-you.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick man with &#8216;considerable CV&#8217; tells judge &#8216;it&#8217;s great to see you&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the road remains open, traffic was reduced to a single lane for a time to facilitate a clean up of the scene and the removal of the vehicles involved.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp_Image_2026-05-12_at_19.54.48-1778613348661.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"1200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At this stage, it&#8217;s not known if anybody sustained serious injuries in the collision.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also unclear if any passengers were being transported in the taxi at the time.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation to establish the circumstances of what happened is underway and any witnesses are asked to come forward and contact gardai.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody with dash-cam footage is also asked to may the footage available.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOTORISTS travelling on the main Limerick to Cork road are being urged to exercise caution following a road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,28280,35994,61,60,13812,43],"class_list":["post-445906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-car-crash","tag-croom","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-n20","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445906","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=445906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}