A motorist who was driving a car when it hit and critically injured a cyclist in Dublin this afternoon is being questioned by gardai.
Gardai were tonight questioning a man after a cyclist was critically injured in a road collision in Dublin this afternoon.
The incident occurred in Tallaght in the west of the city at around 2.15pm.
The exact details were not clear at the time of writing, though gardai said the injured cyclist is a 36-year-old man.
He was knocked from his bike on the N81 near the junction of Fortunestown Rd. The emergency services were alerted and when gardai arrived at the scene they arrested the 32-year-old driver of the car. He was the sole occupant of the vehicle at the time.
The injured man was treated at the scene by paramedics before being taken for emergency treatment to nearby Tallaght Hospital.
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The car that hit the cyclist has been taken away by gardai to be examined as part of a criminal inquiry and the injured man’s bike has also been retained by the gardai for examination.
The road was closed for a period of team as Garda crash scene experts examined the busy junction where the collision occurred.
The incident follows a series of recent collisions that have seen five cyclists killed on the roads of the Republic so far this year. That tally, with the year not yet at its halfway point, is equal to the number of cyclists killed in all of last year.
The most recent fatality occurred on Saturday, May 17th, when a 47-year-old man was killed in Co Mayo after being hit by a car. The incident occurred on the Ballaghadreen Road, about 2km outside Ballyhaunis, at 11.45am.
In Co Galway on April 23rd a cyclist in his 60s died when he was hit by a BMW on the Gort Road in Loughrea.
On February 3rd, a woman who was struck by a car the previous week in Tralee, Co Kerry, died in hospital from her injuries. The victim, in her 40s, was struck by a car as she was cycling from her own home in Tralee to visit a relative in the town.
On January 27th, a cyclist died when he was knocked from his bike in evening rush hour traffic in Dublin. That collision occurred at City West Road, Brownsbarn Roundabout, Saggart, just before 5.30pm.
While the deceased was treated at the scene by paramedics and was taken by ambulance to Tallaght Hospital, he died a short time later at the hospital.
Another cyclist in his 40s was struck by a car at the Kilmurray roundabout in Castletroy on the outskirts of Limerick City on Wednesday, January 8th, and later died from his injuries.
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