{"id":508600,"date":"2020-07-12T12:24:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T11:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agriland.ie\/?p=508600"},"modified":"2020-07-12T12:27:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T11:27:25","slug":"man-taken-to-hospital-after-collision-with-tractor-and-mower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/farming-news\/man-taken-to-hospital-after-collision-with-tractor-and-mower\/","title":{"rendered":"Man taken to hospital after collision with tractor and mower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was taken to hospital following\u00a0a serious collision between a car and a tractor and mower in the midlands in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred in Co. Offaly on Friday, July 10, An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to <em>AgriLand<\/em>, a spokesperson for An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na noted:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agriland.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/image-whatsapp1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-508618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.agriland.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/image-whatsapp1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1007\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.agriland.ie\/uploads\/2020\/07\/image-whatsapp1.jpg 1007w, https:\/\/cdn.agriland.ie\/uploads\/2020\/07\/image-whatsapp1-768x477.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Garda\u00ed attended a two-vehicle road traffic collision between a car and a tractor that occurred at Annaharvey, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, at approximately 3:30pm on Friday, July 10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A male in his 40s was taken to Midlands Regional Hospital with non-life threatening injuries,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Collision between car and tractor-mower combo\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/zoNjnvpmpqU?feature=oembed&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;autohide=1&#038;rel=0&#038;controls=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A video &#8211; believed to be dashcam footage of the incident &#8211; emerged on social media over the weekend, which shows the motorist in question moving to overtake a number of vehicles immediately prior to the collision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agriland.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PHOTO-2020-07-12-12-02-48-e1594552642932.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-508612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.agriland.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PHOTO-2020-07-12-12-02-48-e1594552642932.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"470\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the footage, the driver is seen getting out of the car following the accident. No further details of the incident are available at this time.<\/p>\n<h2>Landcruiser seized and driver arrested<\/h2>\n<p>In other news, the driver of a Toyota Landcruiser vehicle which was towing a livestock trailer was arrested after being stopped by members of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na on Thursday, July 9.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was stopped in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_507890\" style=\"width: 738px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agriland.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/garda-twitter2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-507890\" class=\"size-large wp-image-507890\" src=\"https:\/\/www.agriland.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/garda-twitter2-1024x747.jpg\" alt=\"Image source: Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na Twitter trailer\" width=\"728\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.agriland.ie\/uploads\/2020\/07\/garda-twitter2-1024x747.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.agriland.ie\/uploads\/2020\/07\/garda-twitter2-768x561.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.agriland.ie\/uploads\/2020\/07\/garda-twitter2-190x140.jpg 190w, https:\/\/cdn.agriland.ie\/uploads\/2020\/07\/garda-twitter2.jpg 1085w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-507890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image source: Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na Twitter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Upon checking, local Garda\u00ed established that the driver in question was disqualified previously. The driver was promptly arrested and the vehicle seized as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was taken to hospital following\u00a0a serious collision between a car and a tractor and mower in the midlands&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3432,"featured_media":508615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[4540,2073,4653],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}