{"id":187612,"date":"2025-11-18T19:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/187612\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T19:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:08:19","slug":"two-people-rushed-to-hospital-following-serious-road-accident-near-middletown-armagh-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/187612\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people rushed to hospital following serious road accident near Middletown \u2013 Armagh I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1088\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Air-Ambulance-NI.jpg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image\" alt=\"Air Ambulance NI\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Two people have been taken to hospital \u2013 with one transported via Air Ambulance \u2013 following a serious road traffic collision outside <a href=\"https:\/\/armaghi.com\/all-about\/middletown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Middletown<\/a> this morning (November 17).<\/p>\n<p>Fire appliances were called to the scene of a two vehicle accident on the Monaghan Road at 8.14am.<\/p>\n<p>Two appliances from Armagh Fire Station and one appliance from Keady Fire Station attended the incident.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for NIFRS confirmed that one casualty was self-rescued from their vehicle prior to the arrival of Firefighters and left in the care of NIAS.<\/p>\n<p>One casualty was rescued using specialist rescue equipment and was then airlifted to hospital. Firefighters left the scene at 10.20am.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Ireland Ambulance Service despatched two Emergency Ambulances, an Emergency Paramedic Officer.<\/p>\n<p>The Charity Air Ambulance with HEMS on board, were also tasked to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>One person was taken to Craigavon Area Hospital by Ambulance and another patient was taken to Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast by Air Ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign Up To Our Newsletter&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMost read today&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been taken to hospital \u2013 with one transported via Air Ambulance \u2013 following a serious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[8257,9,10,8256,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,132,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-187612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-armagh-city","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-county-armagh","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115572277625043803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}