Day of chaos on the roads as emergency services attend multiple road traffic incidents

Gardai in Meath North dealt with seven road traffic collisions in the Navan area yesterday that left resources "stretched".

A Garda spokesperson said units from Navan were called to three separate incidents at the same time (1:45 approx) as the collision on the bridge at the junction of the Athlumney Road and Navan-Dublin road which brought traffic to a standstill in the town and sparked a major river search after it was mistakenly reported that someone had entered the water.

A two-car collision on the Kells Road at Liscarton saw two people injured with both drivers taken to hospital with what were described as non-life threatening injuries.

Around the same time, a single vehicle RTC on the M3 near Blundelstown saw a driver hospitalised as a precaution after his car left the road and overturned.

Emergency services also attended a crash at the Metges Road, Johnstown, at around 3.20pm, involving two vehicles. There were no reports of injuries arising from the collision.

Later that evening at about 7pm there was another material damage crash involving two cars on the R147 Kells Road outside the Blackwater Retail Park with no injuries reported.

Around the same time there was a collision at the junction of the Metges Road and the R147 Dublin Road in Navan with emergency services again attending the scene.