{"id":73379,"date":"2025-09-19T12:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/73379\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:28:16","slug":"one-person-hospitalised-after-early-morning-collision-that-closed-motorway-in-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/73379\/","title":{"rendered":"One person hospitalised after early-morning collision that closed motorway in Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EMERGENCY services attended the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/309\/politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">scene<\/a> of a two-vehicle collision that temporarily closed the M7 this Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, which involved two vehicles, occurred at approximately 6.40am this Friday, September 19.<\/p>\n<p>The collision occurred on the northbound lane of the M7, between Junction 28, Castletroy, and Junction 27, Birdhill.<\/p>\n<p>The road was closed during the early morning rush hour period following the incident, with traffic reaching back as far as Junction 29, Ballysimon.<\/p>\n<p>The road has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/local-news\/1896436\/limerick-natives-take-home-brave-hearts-awards-for-healthcare-and-fundraising.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick natives take home Brave Hearts Awards for healthcare and fundraising<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One person has been conveyed to hospital following the incident, a spokesperson for An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na informed Limerick Live.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The spokesperson said: &#8220;Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended the scene of a two-vehicle road traffic collision that occurred on the M7 in Co Limerick between Junction 27 and Junction 28 this Friday morning 19th\u00a0September 2025 at approximately 6.40am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;One person was conveyed to hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The road remains open.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Investigations are ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Limerick Fire and Rescue Service confirmed that they received the call at 7:07am.<\/p>\n<p>Three units attended the scene and returned to the station just before 9am.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EMERGENCY services attended the scene of a two-vehicle collision that temporarily closed the M7 this Friday morning. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,1844,31094,38672,15,16,5,50245,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-73379","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-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-limerick","19":"tag-limerick-collision","20":"tag-m7","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-road-closure","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73379","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=73379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}