MORE CHECKPOINTS AFTER MEN FLEE NORTH GALWAY CRASH

Date Published: 08-Dec-2012

THE net of Garda checkpoints has widened today as the search continues for a number of men who fled the scene of a crash after a high-speed Garda chase at Belmonth near Milltown on Thursday night.

It is thought that those travelling in the high-powered car, which crashed after being chased by Gardai near Belmont NS, may be from the Dublin area

Two men were removed by ambulance to University Hospital Galway as Gardai searched fields, buildings and side roads for a number of others in the darkness until the early hours of yesterday.Members of Tuam Fire Brigade had to use cutting equipment to free the two injured men from the wreckage

The search for the others who fled the scene has intensified and the two men who were injured are still being treated at University Hospital Galway today.Gardai from Tuam and Claremorris stations are involved in the investigations into the incident.