Two men and a woman seriously injured in two-car crash in Wexford

Tinnock Lower on the Gorey to Inch road from the roundabout at exit 22 of the M11 was closed until early Tuesday morning to allow for a technical examination. 

Two men and a woman were taken to hospital with serious injuries following a two-vehicle head-on collision in North Wexford on Monday evening.

The collision near Gorey after 7pm resulted in all three occupants being taken to St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin by ambulance with serious but non-life threatening injuries.

Emergency services from Gorey, Enniscorthy, Wexford, and Arklow attended the scene. A critical care doctor, community paramedic, two training officers, and an off-duty paramedic were also present.

Tinnock Lower on the Gorey to Inch road from the roundabout at exit 22 of the M11 was closed until early Tuesday morning to allow for a technical examination. 

Fianna Fáil Cllr Joe Sullivan, who lives next to where the accident occurred, said the scene is less than 2km away from where a pedestrian was killed on November 21 last year.

"The cars are in an awful state beside where the accident occurred. How anyone got out of them I don't know. They were lucky to get out with their lives," he said.

Cllr Sullivan, a retired garda, is concerned about the increased number of incidents on Irish roads in recent years. 

"Last year, road deaths started moving upwards after a number of years when they'd been down and it appears that trend is continuing. That's something that the authorities of An Garda Siochana and the RSA are going to have to look at significantly and seriously within the short-term to stop this carnage on the roads,' added Cllr Sullivan.

He said the utilisation of speed cameras on motorways is not in keeping with where the blackspots are.

"We have a very low percentage of road fatalities on motorways and why we have so many speed cameras on them is beyond me. While on our secondary, regional, and local roads people are dying," said Cllr Sullivan.