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TWO PEDESTRIANS WERE injured, one fatally, in a road traffic incident on Abbey Street in Dublin city centre close to the Jervis Luas stop today.
The man and woman were injured when they were struck by a car shortly before 1.00pm.
Both were taken to the Mater Hospital where the woman, aged in her 50s, was later pronounced dead. The man is believed to have suffered leg injuries.
The driver of the car, a man in his 30s, was arrested under the Road Traffic Act at the scene and is detained at Store Street Garda Station.
The area was sealed off and the road was closed for a number of hours to facilitate a forensic collision investigation of the scene. However Middle Abbey Street has now re-opened and Red Line Luas services have been restored.
Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to the incident to contact them at Store Street Garda station on 01 666 8000.
(Images: Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
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Hope the injured pedestrians make a recovery.
Just past by, Garda everywhere ,hope all ok
I hope the man with non threatening life injuries gets better too…
The only time you will see Garda on the street.
Sadly the Women injured has died. Rip
Nice pointless comment to an article where someone has lost their life there Micheal
Well done.
Micheal = Mark
Its very sad the woman lost her life, but you never see Garda on the streets of Dublin. R.I.P.
RIP to this poor woman. That’s completely off topic and utter rubbish, Mark…I always see guards on the street and I’m not home often.
I was replying to rmcd66 Ann-marie
I saw one 3 minutes ago. & I’ve seen plenty.
How can people red thumb this !!!!!
Sick , sad people with empty life’s
i was in Dublin last Tuesday. In the space of 30 minutes, I saw 5 different garda foot patrols, two garda cars driving through the city centre, one garda on a motorcycle, and an unmarked car.
The Journal should move their ‘Thumbs up/down’ from the right hand side. There’s no way anyone could give this comment a thumbs down. I reckon people are hitting the thumbs as they scroll down (I’ve done it) and it’s very annoying.
My sympathy with the dead woman’s family and the injured man.
Joe – you have a remarkable memory!
Why thank you Buckwheat. But it was a notable observation at the time.
Jesus you are hilarious…
That was directed at Mark btw
ridiculous that the only pedestrian area in Dublin is pretty much Grafton street. No sense of how to build a pleasant urban environment.
or indeed safe.
The mentality of people in Dublin is the same as those anywhere else in the country, they cant live without their cars. You’re probably more likely to come across some nutter with a failed driving test here then you are on some country road.
@Dave ….That’s because in our country you can fail your driving test, and get the car and drive home. Madness.
I think it’s awful to post pictures of people that have been involved in accidents.
So sad to hear of any person dying on our roads. RIP.
There are no private owned cars allowed on this stretch of abbey st only delivery vehicles at designated times and that micra doesn’t look like a delivery truck !!!
Think you’re right, private cars are required to turn left into lower Liffey street just before upper Abbey street starts, so this car shouldn’t be there in the first place. And the fact driver was arrested too probably tells a bit too… RIP.
What was a car doing driving up there?
I think they’re allowed
There are multi story carparks in the area that should have been closed or not allowed in the first place. Having car traffic in this part of the city is completely incompatible with the Luas as well as cyclists and pedestrians. Nothing will be done about this as money usually has a higher priority than lives.
The delivery entrance to jervis is on that small stretch of street which is why motorists are allowed down it. It’s a tragedy to hear the lady passed away and hopefully the gent makes a full recovery
That’s the entrance to deliveries to the shopping centre if you look closely
I missed the 2nd pic until now. You’d have to be doing quite fast to do that much damage
If the driver was arrested its for one of two things dangerous driving or drink/drugs driving there would be no other reason to lift someone at an accident of this nature
Maybe the car had a tyre blowout or it wasn’t serviced properly and the steering or brakes went??
Just giving the poor driver the benefit of the doubt. He’s hopefully feeling remorse anyway.
Seeing as how he was arrested I’d imagine there was some driver error.
I thought if you were the cause of an accident where you injured someone, you were automatically arrested.
True .
According to rte news that women has now died RIP
This is awful news to hear. Rip to that lady and I hope the gentleman makes a full recovery. I know that cars are allowed on that street to get to the back entrance of jervis. anyone that knows that street knows that you’d seldom get above 5mph along there. I’d say there will be plenty of witnesses as it was right beside the busy Luas stop.
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Really tasteless to show pictures of the scene of the accident as they were tending to the injured. What if a family member was reading this?
I wish the media would stop referring to this incidence as an accident – It’s vehicular homicide.
Nowhere in this piece is it referred to as an accident. And as for calling it homicide unless you know more about the story you certainly can’t call it that, untill its decided by a court or admitted .
Should comments not be closed on this article seeing as there is a criminal investigation taking place!!
Some arseholes around here these days :(
Condolences to the families of those involved.
And the guards arrived on their segways!
Muppet
You really are a tasteless ‘comedian’
We should bring in always allowing cars turn left, like the have in the US. It would make drivers and pedestrians more careful. In this case I know it would make no difference.
The car was on the wrong side of the road and did indeed mount the pavement mowing down pedestrians.
I heard a luas was heading out of the city and the driver was attempting to overtake it
Very little information about this incident on wider media. Is there a black out? No info on the driver or nature of the crash
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