{"id":628525,"date":"2026-08-09T11:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T11:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/628525\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T11:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T11:42:18","slug":"m50-southbound-closed-between-junction-11-and-12-after-serious-two-vehicle-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/628525\/","title":{"rendered":"M50 southbound closed between junction 11 and 12 after serious two-vehicle collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE M50 SOUTHBOUND between junctions 11 and 12 is currently closed after a serious road traffic collision.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are currently at scene of the collision that occurred on the M50 at around 5.30am this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The two-vehicle collision occurred between junction 11 and junction 12 southbound, and a number of people were removed from the scene to hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The M50 from junction 11 Tallaght\u00a0to junction 12\u00a0Firhouse southbound is currently closed and diversions are in place.<\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson described it as a \u201clive incident\u201d and added that no further information at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE M50 SOUTHBOUND between junctions 11 and 12 is currently closed after a serious road traffic collision. Garda\u00ed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,7878,18,13,14,11167,6,19,17,11,12,90928,265294,15,16,5,50245,7,8],"class_list":["post-628525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-collision","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-gardai","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-m50","tag-m50-collision","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-road-closure","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117065373761194087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628525","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=628525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}