{"id":604511,"date":"2026-08-25T21:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/604511\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T21:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:18:11","slug":"majority-of-teenagers-injured-in-m50-crash-released-from-hospital-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/604511\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of teenagers injured in M50 crash released from hospital \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The majority of the teenagers injured in a head-on crash on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/m50\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/m50\/\">M50<\/a> have been released from hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A total of nine people, including the eight teenage boys, were hospitalised after a stolen vehicle was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2026\/08\/11\/footage-on-phone-of-teens-involved-in-m50-crash-may-be-key-to-investigation-gardai-believe\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2026\/08\/11\/footage-on-phone-of-teens-involved-in-m50-crash-may-be-key-to-investigation-gardai-believe\/\">driven the wrong way along the M50<\/a> motorway at junction 12 near Firhouse, south <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a> on Sunday, August 9th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The five-seater Toyota Yaris was carrying eight teenagers and there have been concerns over the health of one of them, a 13-year-old. The majority of those involved have been released from hospital, according to sources with knowledge of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\">Garda<\/a> operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The car had been stolen from the Rathmines area of Dublin and was spotted by garda\u00ed in several parts of south and west Dublin on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The driver of a second car travelling on the correct side of the road, a man aged in his 20s, was injured and hospitalised when the car was struck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sara Jane Fox, his mother, told Red FM that he \u201cwalked out\u201d of the car after the crash. He was \u201cup and talking\u201d within days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIt was a devastating crash, and we\u2019re incredibly grateful and thankful that Craig survived,\u201d a family member, Kayleigh Fox, said in an online post seeking donations to \u201cease the financial pressure\u201d on her nephew while he is out of work due to the \u201cmonths of physio and ongoing medical appointments\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/08\/24\/wrong-way-driving-out-of-control-amid-32-rise-in-incidents-detected-in-2026\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wrong-way driving \u2018out of control\u2019 amid 32% rise in incidents detected in 2026Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The majority of the teenagers injured in a head-on crash on the M50 have been released from hospital.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,72,61,60,69197,50127],"class_list":["post-604511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-m50","tag-toyota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604511","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=604511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}