Dublin M50 traffic: Late night crash closed motorway between Firhouse and Ballinteer

The M50 was temporarily closed after a crash in Dublin late on Saturday night (July 30).

All three northbound lanes were blocked because of the incident between Firhouse and Ballinteer / Dundrum. The M50 Dublin twitter account first reported the incident at 10.40pm. In a later tweet, the traffic monitoring service said: "Collision was reported earlier as S'bound between J12 Firhouse and J13 Dundrum is actually on the N'bound carriageway. Emergency services are on scene and all 3 lanes are currently blocked."

Then, at 10.30pm, it said: "Left lane has reopened N'bound between J12 Firhouse and J13 Dundrum as emergency services work to clear a collision."

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In a later tweet at 10.49pm, Dublin Fire Brigade said: "Some lanes have reopened after a road traffic collision led to a temporary closure of the M50 Dublin J13 Ballinteer to J12 Firhouse." We have contacted the Fire Brigade to ask if any injuries have been reported and will update this article when we get a response.

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