{"id":131298,"date":"2025-11-10T00:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/131298\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T00:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:40:08","slug":"donegal-man-arrested-in-northern-ireland-over-alleged-hit-and-run-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/131298\/","title":{"rendered":"Donegal man arrested in Northern Ireland over alleged hit-and-run in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested in Northern Ireland over an alleged hit-and-run in London that has left a 65-year-old pedestrian fighting for her life.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to Southend Lane, Lewisham, south-east London, on October 31st, and the woman remains in a life-threatening condition, the Metropolitan Police said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Michael McLaughlin, of Heath Park, Buncrana, Donegal, has been charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving and failing to stop after a road traffic collision.<\/p>\n<p>McLaughlin was arrested on a motorway in Northern Ireland by Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers on Friday, the Met said.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old was escorted to England and interviewed at a south London police station.<\/p>\n<p>He is in custody and will appear at Bromley Magistrates\u2019 Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the Met\u2019s Serious Collision Investigative Unit are still looking to speak to witnesses and asked them to contact police on 101 quoting 9111\/31NOV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested in Northern Ireland over an alleged hit-and-run in London that has left a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-131298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131298","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=131298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}