
At least eight people have been injured after a car mounted a footpath outside a row of shops in Dublin, Ireland.
The vehicle crashed outside an off-licence along Oliver Plunkett Road, Monkstown, a suburb six miles south of Dublin city centre, at 3pm.
The victims were aged between 14 and 15 years old, sources told the Irish Mirror.
The driver, a woman in her 40s, may have suffered a medical episode while behind the wheel, Irish news outlet RTÉ reported.
Seven teenagers were injured during the ‘serious road traffic collision’, the Gardaí, the Irish police force, told .
Gardaí added: ‘The seven juvenile pedestrians, all teenagers, and the driver of the car, a woman aged in her 40s, sustained varying degrees of injuries.
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‘All eight individuals have been taken to different hospitals for treatment.
‘Gardaí are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the collision.’
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