A man in his 40s was killed and two people were seriously injured in a collision in Co Limerick last night.<\/p>\n
The man was pronounced dead at the scene after the car he was driving collided with another car on the L1135 near Pullagh, Pallasgreen.<\/p>\n
The incident happened shortly before 10pm yesterday and a woman aged in her 50s and a teenage girl were seriously injured.<\/p>\n
They were brought to University Hospital Limerick (UHL) for treatment.<\/p>\n
Two other passengers in the car – a woman aged in her 20s and a teenage boy -were also brought to UHL to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
The man’s body was brought to UHL where a post-mortem examination will take place.<\/p>\n
The road is closed and local diversions are in place while a garda technical examination is under way.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed said they are aware of images and videos of the incident circulating on social media and have asked the public to refrain from sharing them.<\/p>\n
They also appealed for anyone who witnessed the collision to come forward.<\/p>\n
Road users with camera footage, particularly dash cam footage, who were travelling on the L1135 near Pullagh between 9.30pm and 10pm are asked to make it available to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Bruff Street Garda Station on (061) 382940, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 40s was killed and two people were seriously injured in a collision in Co…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-500550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500550","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=500550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}