A teenage boy is in critical condition in hospital following an electric bike collision in Co Laois on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The collision occurred on the Stradbally Road in Portlaoise shortly after 11pm.<\/p>\n
Two boys were on the e-bike, and one of them, aged 14, is in a serious condition in Temple Street Hospital in Dublin.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses following the serious single-vehicle collision.<\/p>\n
Emergency services and Garda\u00ed attended the scene of the serious collision involving an e-bike on the N80, Stradbally Road, Portlaoise.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed said in a statement that a \u2018male passenger in his early teens sustained serious injuries and was taken to hospital\u2019.<\/p>\n
The statement added that he is currently receiving treatment at CHI Temple Street where his condition is understood to be critical.<\/p>\n
The driver, an adult male in his late teens, received medical assessment at the scene. It is understood no other vehicle was involved.<\/p>\n
The scene has been examined by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators and the road has since reopened.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the collision to come forward.<\/p>\n
Road users who were travelling on the Stradbally Road in Portlaoise, from St Peter & Paul\u2019s Cemetery to St Fintan\u2019s Hospital, between 11pm and 11.30pm and who may have camera footage (including dash-cam), are asked to make this footage available to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact Portlaoise Garda Station on (057) 867 4100, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage boy is in critical condition in hospital following an electric bike collision in Co Laois on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-512047","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\/512047","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=512047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}