{"id":303480,"date":"2026-01-25T21:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/303480\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T21:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:45:08","slug":"teenage-girl-sustains-catastrophic-injuries-in-incident-involving-a-scrambler-in-dublin-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/303480\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage girl sustains \u2018catastrophic\u2019 injuries in incident involving a scrambler in Dublin \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A teenage girl sustained \u201ccatastrophic\u201d injuries in an incident involving a scrambler bike in north <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a> on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> and emergency services attended the scene of a \u201cserious road traffic collision\u201d involving a motorbike that was in collision with the girl in the Scribblestown area of Finglas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident happened at about 2.20pm as the girl walked on a pedestrian crossing on the Ratoath Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na said a female pedestrian in her teens was brought to Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown to be treated for injuries \u201cbelieved to be serious\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAn adult male, aged in his late teens, and a male juvenile, aged in his teens, [who were] on the scrambler are being treated for injuries believed to be non life-threatening.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">At teatime, the road remained cordoned off as Garda technical experts examined the scene, taking photographs of the badly damaged green bike, which lay in multiple pieces. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Locals gathered in small numbers, some of them crying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Geoff Keating, a local youth worker, said local residents were \u201cin shock\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIt is horrific that a child crossing the road on a Sunday afternoon should sustain catastrophic injuries. A lot of people in the estate thought it was their daughter so there was panic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He said there had been a number of serious incidents on the stretch of road, a main road through the Westwood estate, in the past 18 months. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI have been calling for years to have this road regulated. It is absolutely shocking. I have been asking the council to put in speed bumps. There are speed bumps inside the estate but that is the main thoroughfare and there are none.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Another man, who did not want to be named, said: \u201cI am a walker and cyclist. All these scrambler and e-bikes that are going flying around and there\u2019s nothing being done about it &#8230; Everyone knew something like this would eventually happen.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na appealed to anyone who witnessed the collision, including those with camera footage from the area between 2.10pm and 2.40pm, to contact Finglas Garda Station on (01) 6667500, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage girl sustained \u201ccatastrophic\u201d injuries in an incident involving a scrambler bike in north Dublin on Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,52,15861,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-303480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-dublin","12":"tag-dublin-11","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-featured-news","15":"tag-featurednews","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115957931901942197","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303480","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=303480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}