A young woman been taken to hospital following a road traffic collision in Ennis this evening.
The incident occurred at around 5.00pm at the pedestrian crossing at Cappahard on the Tulla Road.
It’s understood the woman was travelling on an electric scooter when she was involved in a collision with a van.
National Ambulance Service paramedics and Gardaí responded to the incident along with units of Clare County Fire and Rescue Service from Ennis station.
The woman was assessed and treated at the scene before being removed by ambulance to University Hospital Limerick. The woman’s injuries are not believed to be serious. The van driver was not injured in the incident.
Meanwhile, emergency services have dealt with multi-vehicle road traffic collision on the M18 motorway near Dromoland.
The four car crash occurred in the northbound carriageway near the offramp at junction 11.
Units of Clare County Fire and Rescue Service from Shannon and Ennis stations responded to the incident along with National Ambulance Service paramedics and Gardaí.
On arrival at the scene, emergency services found that all the vehicles had been moved into the median grass margin. The occupants of all four cars were assessed at the scene however no one was found to have been injured.
The northbound carriageway was closed at junction 11 for over an hour but has since reopened.