The Garda\u00ed are investigating a road traffic accident that resulted in the death of a pedestrian in Waterford.<\/p>\n
The accident occurred on the R448 in Sallypark, Waterford, on Sunday morning, November 23.<\/p>\n
In an appeal for witnesses a spokesperson for the force said Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended the scene after a car struck the pedestrian shortly before 2.10am.<\/p>\n
The male pedestrian, aged in his 40s, was pronounced deceased at the scene. The Coroner was notified and a post-mortem examination will take place in due course.<\/p>\n
The driver of the car, a male in his 20s, was uninjured.<\/p>\n
The road remains closed, on the R448 from Rice\u2019s Bridge to the New Rath Road roundabout, and local diversions are in place.<\/p>\n
The road is preserved for Garda Forensic Collision Investigators to conduct an examination of the scene.<\/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 who were travelling on the R448 between 1.30am and 2.15am are asked to make this footage available to investigating Garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Waterford Garda Station on 051 305300, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Garda\u00ed are investigating a road traffic accident that resulted in the death of a pedestrian in Waterford.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-156910","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\/156910","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=156910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}