{"id":143907,"date":"2025-11-17T03:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T03:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/143907\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T03:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T03:43:09","slug":"motorcyclist-dies-following-road-crash-on-the-r519-at-ballykevin-near-kilmeedy-in-co-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/143907\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist dies following road crash on the R519 at Ballykevin, near Kilmeedy in Co Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The female driver of the car was assessed at the scene and did not require immediate hospital treatment\n<\/p>\n

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A motorcyclist aged in his 50s has died in a crash involving a car in Co Limerick.<\/p>\n

The collision took place on the R519 at Ballykevin, near Kilmeedy, at around 4pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene and his body has been taken to the mortuary at University Hospital Limerick. <\/p>\n

The female driver of the car was assessed at the scene and did not require immediate hospital treatment.<\/p>\n

The road has been closed to traffic pending a forensic examination and the local coroner has been notified.<\/p>\n

Diversions are in place on the R519 between the R520 at Ballykevin and Kilmeedy village.<\/p>\n

Gardai are appealing to anyone who was travelling in the area at the time of the collision or those with footage near the scene around the time of the incident to contact them.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to contact Newcastlewest Garda Station on (069) 20650, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIP\u00a0|\u00a0 The female driver of the car was assessed at the scene and did not require immediate hospital…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6354,6358,61,60,6357,43,6355,6356],"class_list":["post-143907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-namelatest-news-ticker","tag-brandsindependent-ie","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ishiddentrue","tag-news","tag-sluglatest-news-ticker","tag-uuidec10736b-5a64-4120-bbf6-88154ac15f82"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143907","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=143907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}