Woman airlifted to hospital following road traffic accident in Longford

A woman in her 40s has been airlifted to hospital following a collision between a lorry and a car in Co Longford this morning.

The incident occurred at around 10.30am on the outskirts of Granard and outside the entrance to a busy residential housing estate.

Emergency services attended the scene where they treated the woman and a young child who was also injured.

The lorry driver is understood to have been uninjured with gardaí closing off the road pending a full technical examination of the scene.

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An air ambulance arrived at the nearby Cnoc Mhuire Secondary School shortly afterwards before the woman was flown to Mayo University Hospital for what have been described as serious injuries.