Seriously injured woman airlifted to hospital after road crash

A WOMAN in her 40s was seriously injured while a child escaped serious harm in a collision between a lorry and a car yesterday morning.

The pair were injured in the crash that occurred at around 10.30am outside the entrance of a residential housing estate directly opposite the former Granada Dance Hall, in Granard, northeast Co. Longford.

Emergency services tended to the woman and the young girl at the scene.

It is understood that the driver of the lorry escaped uninjured from the horror collision.

The air ambulance arrived at the nearby Cnoc Mhuire Secondary School shortly afterwards and the injured woman was airlifted to Mayo University Hospital.

The road was temporarily closed by gardaí to allow for a full technical examination of the scene.

A Garda spokesman said: ‘Gardaí and emergency services are currently attending the scene of a road traffic collision on the Ballyjamesduff Road at Granard, Co. Longford, April 30, 2022.

‘The collision involved a car and a lorry. The driver of the car, a woman aged in her 40s, was taken from the scene to

Mayo University Hospital to be treated for serious injuries.

‘A female child was treated by emergency services for non-life threatening injuries.’ The spokesman added that the road was closed between the R396 and N55 junctions with diversions in place.