{"id":194880,"date":"2025-11-22T20:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/194880\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T20:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:03:10","slug":"teenage-pedestrian-left-with-serious-head-injuries-after-collision-with-truck-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/194880\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage pedestrian left with serious head injuries after collision with truck \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A young woman was fighting for her life in a Cork hospital after being involved in a collision with a truck in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\">Limerick<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident occurred at a pedestrian crossing on the R463, at Corbally Road, around 12.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 19-year old student was initially taken from the scene by ambulance to University Hospital Limerick but was later transferred to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork-university-hospital\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork-university-hospital\/\">Cork University Hospital<\/a> with serious head injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a statement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">garda\u00ed<\/a> appealed for witnesses and road users who may have camera footage and who were travelling on the Corbally Road in Limerick city between 11:45am and 12:45pm to make contact. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cGarda\u00ed and emergency services were alerted to the collision involving a truck and a pedestrian on the Corbally Road that occurred shortly before 12:30pm,\u201d the Garda statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe female pedestrian was brought to University Hospital Limerick for treatment of serious injuries. No other injuries were reported.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The driver of the truck was treated at the scene for shock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed closed the road to allow forensic collision investigators conduct a technical examination of the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with information is asked to contact Henry Street Garda station, Limerick, on (061) 212 400, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young woman was fighting for her life in a Cork hospital after being involved in a collision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,60926,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,1844,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-194880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-cork-university-hospital-cuh","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-limerick","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115595143199242597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194880","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=194880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}