{"id":566230,"date":"2026-05-04T20:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566230\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:01:12","slug":"patient-airlifted-to-hospital-after-portrush-crash-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566230\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient airlifted to hospital after Portrush crash &#8211; LIVE updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In a statement, the <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/all-about\/northern-ireland-ambulance-service\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Northern Ireland Ambulance Service<\/a> confirmed it received a 999 call at 12:51 on Monday, May 4 following reports of an incident involving an electric scooter in the vicinity of Dunluce Road, Portrush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A spokesperson added: &#8220;NIAS dispatched an Emergency Crew to the incident. Ambulance Control also tasked the Charity <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/all-about\/air-ambulance\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Air Ambulance<\/a>, with HEMS crew on board, to attend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Following assessment and initial treatment at the scene, one patient was taken by Air Ambulance to the <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/all-about\/Royal-Victoria-Hospital\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Royal Victoria Hospital<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement, the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service confirmed it received a 999 call at 12:51 on Monday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79999,59,57,58,50,100874,31472,2098,2662,16657,981,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-566230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-air-ambulance","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-north-coast","tag-northern-ireland-ambulance-service","tag-portrush","tag-psni","tag-royal-victoria-hospital","tag-traffic-and-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}