Overview
- The collision occurred around 8.20pm on Saturday on the R132 at Dowdallshill in Dundalk.
- The child passenger was taken to Temple Street Children’s University Hospital and remains in critical condition.
- The driver of the first car, a woman in her late 20s, was brought to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda with non-life-threatening injuries.
- The second vehicle’s driver, a man in his early 50s, and a teenage female passenger were also hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
- Local roads remain closed with diversions as investigators work at the scene.