{"id":9688,"date":"2025-09-09T10:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/9688\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:34:08","slug":"breaking-second-multiple-vehicle-collision-in-two-days-in-limerick-causes-long-traffic-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/9688\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Second multiple-vehicle collision in two days in Limerick causes long traffic delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A SECOND multiple-vehicle collision has occurred on the outskirts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> city in two days, reports Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII).<\/p>\n<p>The incident involving four vehicles occurred at around 8.30am\u00a0on the M7 between\u00a0J29 (N24) Ballysimon and J28 Castletroy. It is affecting traffic heading towards Dublin with drivers at a standstill for over 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/local-news\/1889088\/limerick-firefighters-save-dwelling-house-after-adjacent-hay-barn-goes-up-in-flames.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick firefighters save dwelling house after adjacent hay barn goes up in flames<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The extent of injuries suffered by occupants of the vehicles, if any, is not known at this time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A garda spokesperson said garda\u00ed and emergency services are currently at the scene of a four-vehicle road traffic collision that occurred on the M7 road near Junction 28.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The road remains open at this time.\u00a0As this is an ongoing incident no further information is available at this time,&#8221; said a garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>A TII spokesperson said delays to your journey will occur.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsider a different journey route or start time. When approaching the collision location, drive with caution, reduce your speed and obey instructions from emergency services,\u201d said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SECOND multiple-vehicle collision has occurred on the outskirts of Limerick city in two days, reports Transport Infrastructure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,1396,10143,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-9688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-limerick","10":"tag-m7","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688","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=9688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}