An elderly man was seriously injured in a road traffic collision in Clare yesterday evening, which also saw two other people hospitalised.The two-car crash occurred shortly before 4pm at Cratloemoyle close to the Limerick/Clare border on the northbound lane of the Limerick to Ennis dual carriageway. One of the northbound lanes of the N18 was blocked for two hours.
The Irish Times newspaper reports today that two people were trapped in one vehicle and had to be cut from the wreckage by fire brigade officers. One of those, a 70-year-old man, was reported to be in a critical condition in hospital.
