Gardaí injured after car overturns on call-out as two men hurt in accidents
TWO gardaí were injured after the patrol car they were travelling in overturned.
The male and female officers were treated for minor injuries following the accident on the Pigeon House Road in Ringsend, Dublin.
The incident happened at around 5pm yesterday when the officers were on a call-out.
There were no other vehicles involved and the two gardaí were taken to St Vincent’s Hospital. Gardaí in Irishtown are investigating the cause of the incident.
Meanwhile, two men were being treated in hospital following separate road incidents.
An elderly man was in serious condition last night after the car he was driving smashed into a stone wall at Kilcurrish, around 6km from Ennis, Co Clare.
The alarm was raised at around 10.40am yesterday when emergency services were alerted to the incident on a country road just off the main Ennis to Corofin R476 route.
Two units of the fire brigade from Ennis, ambulance paramedics and gardaí responded to the incident.
On arrival, emergency crews found a man, believed to be in his 70s, seriously injured in a Toyota car.
The man was assessed and treated at the scene before being brought to University Hospital Limerick for further treatment.
It’s believed that part of the investigation will focus on whether the man suffered a medical episode before his car smashed into the wall.
Gardaí from Ennis are
investigating the cause of the crash and have appealed for witnesses to contact them at Ennis station on 065 68 48100.
The crash followed an incident in which a 20-year-old man was hit by a minibus at Tully, Co Galway.
The incident occurred at around 11.05pm on Sunday and the man was seriously injured and brought to University College Hospital Galway by ambulance for treatment.
Meanwhile, gardaí are still trying to track down the driver of a car involved in an early morning hit-and-run that left three people hospitalised in Ardee, Co Louth.
An investigation is under way after the car mounted a pavement outside a pub, before hitting the victims.
However, despite causing serious injury to the pedestrians, the driver then sped off.