Seven teenagers struck by car outside shop in south Dublin, Digi Mart USA News (Monkstown, south Dublin, Ireland): Seven teenage pedestrians and the driver of a car have been taken to hospital after a road traffic incident in south Dublin.
The car, driven by a woman in her 40s, struck a group of people outside a row of shops on Oliver Plunkett Road in the Monkstown-Monkstown Farm area, close to Dún Laoghaire. Gardaí are investigating the incident, which took place on Sunday at around 3pm.
All eight individuals have been taken to different hospitals for treatment, gardaí said. It is understood that there were no deaths at the time of a Garda update around 5.30pm.
Paramedics and a number of units of Dublin Fire Brigade were also at the scene of the ongoing emergency response operation. More than five ambulances were present on Sunday afternoon, with Garda motorcycles providing escorts as they departed.
Oliver Plunkett Road was closed to traffic to facilitate the response. The incident took place close to the junction of Glenageary Road Upper, Mounttown Road Lower and Kill Avenue, where Greta Price-Martin, a student at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, died in 2024.
