{"id":605376,"date":"2026-08-26T17:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/605376\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:46:09","slug":"man-and-woman-80s-seriously-injured-in-m50-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/605376\/","title":{"rendered":"Man and woman (80s) seriously injured in M50 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man and a woman in their 80s have been seriously injured in a single-car collision on Dublin&#8217;s M50.<\/p>\n<p>It happened at about 3:20pm on the southbound side of the road, near the Ballymount ramp.<\/p>\n<p>Both the man and the woman have been taken to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The southbound side of the M50 remains closed and &#8220;severe&#8221; delays are expected in Tallaght and other nearby areas.<\/p>\n<p>Diversions are in place and Transport Infrastructure Ireland is urging motorists to use a different route.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">COLLISION AHEAD!!<\/p>\n<p>M50 J10 Ballymount Direction southbound.<\/p>\n<p>Lanes affected : Full Road Closure<\/p>\n<p>Expect delays!<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/TIITraffic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#TIITraffic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GardaTraffic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@GardaTraffic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HbrR0eBkwi\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/HbrR0eBkwi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TII Traffic (@TIITraffic) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TIITraffic\/status\/2092624250075058667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man and a woman in their 80s have been seriously injured in a single-car collision on Dublin&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-605376","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\/605376","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=605376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}