{"id":82619,"date":"2025-09-24T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/82619\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:18:09","slug":"father-and-two-children-brought-to-wexford-general-hospital-after-being-hit-by-car-while-walking-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/82619\/","title":{"rendered":"Father and two children brought to Wexford General Hospital after being hit by car while walking to school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wexford General Hospital\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bbf61757-3636-4ac7-8f13-aaffd82c6dcf.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Wexford General Hospital<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A father and two children were rushed to hospital on Wednesday morning, after being struck by a car while crossing the road in peak school traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The man and two young girls were making their way to a nearby primary school when they were struck by a car just outside O\u2019Shea, Bramley, Breen veterinary centre on the junction of Distillery Road and The Fairways.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wexford General Hospital\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bbf61757-3636-4ac7-8f13-aaffd82c6dcf.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Wexford General Hospital<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Today&#8217;s News in 90 Seconds &#8211; September 24th             <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Passers-by came to the assistance of the man and his children, who sat into a car while awaiting the arrival of garda\u00ed and ambulance a couple of minutes later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Garda\u00ed took statements from the driver and eye-witnesses at the scene and the man and two children were taken to Wexford General Hospital for further treatment. Their injuries are understood to have been minor and they were only brought to hospital as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Distillery Road Junction\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a556ebea-79e2-4d6e-bb59-63f4dadbeb7f.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Distillery Road Junction<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The busy junction of Distillery Road and The Fairways has been earmarked for a new layout for quite some time now. Plans to install a roundabout to improve traffic flow have been mooted for years, while almost exactly a year ago, further elements of the plan were put to public consultation, including pedestrian crossings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">These works have still to come to fruition, despite a clear appetite locally for the plans to progress. Last November, a woman was knocked from her motorbike at the same junction during lunchtime traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wexford General Hospital A father and two children were rushed to hospital on Wednesday morning, after being struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7583,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-82619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","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-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-padraig-byrne","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82619","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=82619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}