{"id":672644,"date":"2026-11-02T12:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/672644\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T12:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:26:11","slug":"six-people-taken-to-hospital-following-serious-collision-in-north-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/672644\/","title":{"rendered":"Six people taken to hospital following serious collision in North Cork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Six people have been hospitalised following a two-car collision in Mallow on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended the scene of the incident, which happened on the N73, Ballysheehan, at around 10.05pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One man in his 30s, who was a driver of one of the vehicles, was taken to Cork University Hospital for treatment of serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A second driver, a man in his 40s, and four passengers were taken to hospital for injuries believed to be non-life-threatening at the time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The road remains closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;All vehicles, especially HGVs coming from Mitchelstown on the N73, should divert at Skennakilla Cross where the local road will bring all traffic onto the N72 near Killavullen,&#8221; a garda spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Traffic travelling from Mallow can continue out the N72 and divert as appropriate on alternative routes or via Fermoy,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed are appealing for any witnesses to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Road users who may have camera footage, including dash-cam, and were travelling on the N73 near Ballysheehan, Mallow, Co Cork between 9.40pm and 10.10pm on Sunday November 1 are asked to make this available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Anyone with information is asked to contact Mallow Garda Station on (022) 31450, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six people have been hospitalised following a two-car collision in Mallow on Sunday night. Garda\u00ed and emergency services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-672644","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\/672644","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=672644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}