Tag Archives: Clare road traffic collisions

A motorist has escaped injury after his van overturned on the M18 motorway this morning. The single-vehicle collision occurred at around 11.45am in the northbound lanes of the motorway just before the slip-road at junction 12. A white Volkswagen van, believed to have been travelling from Kerry to Fermanagh, is understood to have lost control before colliding with an embankment and overturning. The van came to a stop on its wheels in the hard-shoulder. The van was carrying a load of timber at the time and shed its load. Gardaí responded to the emergency call and on arrival found that the driver and sole occupant of the van appeared to be unharmed. Clare County Fire and Rescue Service and the National Ambulance Service were also alerted. Units of the fire service from Ennis and Shannon stations were mobilised to the scene along with an ambulance. The driver was assessed at the scene by paramedics but was found to be uninjured. …

AN ambulance was sent 175 kilometres from a station in County Galway to a road traffic collision in County Clare on Sunday afternoon, writes Pat Flynn. A motorcyclist was hospitalised following the incident which occurred in Kilkee shortly after 4.30pm. The collision, which happened on Gratten Street in the West Clare resort, involved a car and a motorcycle. It’s understood there was no National Ambulance Service (NAS) resource available in Clare or Limerick at the time and that paramedics were dispatched from Carraroe in Connemara over two hours and 175 kilometres away. A rapid response advanced paramedic (AP) unit was also sent to the scene from Galway. It’s understood the AP was attending another call in Gort when they were mobilised to the Kilkee incident. Firefighters from nearby Kilkee fire station were requested to attend the scene while a local off-duty paramedic also offered assistance until NAS personnel arrived. The motorcyclist, who may have suffered a medical episode before the …