A pedestrian has died following a collision involving a bus on the N7 motorway in Co Kildare on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The incident happened between junction 8 and 7 on the motorway going eastbound at Kill at around 3.30pm.<\/p>\n
The pedestrian, a man in his 30s, was seriously injured and taken to Tallaght University Hospital. He passed away later on Saturday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n
An autopsy is set to take place in due course.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The road is currently closed for garda\u00ed to carry out a technical examination of the scene. The road will remain closed overnight, and diversions are in place.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are appealing for any witnesses to this collision to come forward.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are also appealing for any road users who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) who were travelling in the area at the time of the collision to make this footage available to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Naas Garda Station on (045) 884 300, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.<\/p>\n
Separately, in Co Carlow, a pedestrian has died following a collision involving a car on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The incident happened at around 4.30pm on the R703 in Ballyroughan Big, Borris.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The pedestrian, a man in his 40s, was pronounced dead at the scene. The coroner has since been notified, and an autopsy will take place in due course.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The driver of the car, a woman in her 60s, was uninjured.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The road remains closed overnight for garda\u00ed to carry out a technical examination. Traffic diversions are currently in place.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this collision to contact them.<\/p>\n
Any road users who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) and were travelling in the area at the time are asked to make this footage available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact Carlow Garda Station on 059 913 6620, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian has died following a collision involving a bus on the N7 motorway in Co Kildare on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1111,61,60,43,1112],"class_list":["post-116854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-court-and-crime","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-politics-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}