{"id":156950,"date":"2025-11-24T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/156950\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:49:07","slug":"two-dead-following-multiple-vehicle-crash-in-gormanston-co-meath-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/156950\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead following multiple vehicle crash in Gormanston, Co Meath \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two men have died in a three-vehicle crash involving a bus, a truck and a car in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\/\">Meath<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">At least 12 people were injured in the crash, which took place on the R132 in Gormanston at about 6.30am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The lorry driver, who was in his 40s, and the driver of the Bus \u00c9ireann bus, a man in his 50s, were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The driver of the car, a woman in her 40s, was taken to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin for treatment of serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A teenager who was a passenger in the car was initially taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital before being transferred to Temple Street Children\u2019s Hospital, where she is said to be in a serious condition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is understood at least 10 other people were taken to hospital to be treated for injuries believed to be non-life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Bus \u00c9ireann confirmed one of its buses was involved in the crash, which took place near the site of the former Huntsman pub. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The R132 is closed pending technical examination by Garda forensic investigators and local diversions have been put in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this collision to contact them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Any road users who may have camera footage, including dashcam footage, and were travelling on the R132 at Gormanston between 5.45am and 6.45am are asked to make it available to the Garda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with information is asked to contact Ashbourne Garda station on (01) 801 0600, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have died in a three-vehicle crash involving a bus, a truck and a car in Co&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,15949,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-156950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-meath","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156950","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=156950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}