This article is from page 3 of the 2013-04-02 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 3 JPG
ONE man was airlifted to hospital while at least two other removed to hospital by ambulance following a traffic accident on the main Ennis to Kilrush Road on Holy Thursday afternoon.
Traffic on the N68 was disrupted at Lissycasey for three hours following the incident.
An elderly man had to be cut from the wreckage following the crash, which occurred at the Ennis side of the West Clare village at approximately 12.30pm.
He was then taken to the local GAA pitch from where he was airlifted to hospital.
A passenger from his car and the driver of a second vehicle were removed to hospital by road ambulance.
Fire crews from Ennis along with HSE paramedics and gardaí attended the incident.
This follows an incident last month when a mother and her two children escaped with minor injuries following a collision involving an articulated lorry and two cars near Lissycasey on Tuesday, March 19.
The collision occurred at around 8.30pm at Crown approximately five kilometers west of Lissycasey on the main N68 Ennis to Kilrush road.
The woman and her children, aged between 7 and 10, were travelling in one of the cars involved in the incident.
They were taken to the Mid Western Regional Hospital Limerick by ambulance as a precaution.
The occupants of the other car and the lorry driver escaped uninjured.
The road was closed for more than two hours.
Gardaí from Kilrush are investigating the accident.