Emergency services attend two collisions in County Limerick

EMERGENCY services attended two road traffic collisions within an hour of each other earlier this week.

The first incident happened at Grange Cross, near Ballysimon at around 6.30pm on Tuesday. Two vehicles were involved but the incident was said to have been "minor" in nature with no serious injuries reported.

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Emergency services attended and again no injuries of a serious nature have been reported. There was traffic delays following both instances as the scenes were cleared and vehicles removed.

It is not known if the light rain after two weeks of practically dry weather contributed to the accidents.