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<\/p>\nBREAKING\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n
Emergency services are at the scene. Stock image. Photo: Niall Carson\/PA.<\/p>\n
A motorcyclist aged in his 30s has been killed following a single-vehicle road traffic collision on a busy Wexford road early this morning.<\/p>\n
The incident took place at approximately 6.20 a.m. on the R738 at Growtown Upper, Barntown, Co Wexford.<\/p>\n
The National Ambulance Service and Garda\u00ed rushed to the busy road, which links Taghmon with the notorious Larkin\u2019s Cross, but sadly their efforts were to prove in vain as the man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
The coroner has been notified.<\/p>\n
The road was sealed off to traffic pending a full technical examination of the scene by garda forensic collision investigators. It is expected to remain closed for some time and local diversions are in place.<\/p>\n
Wexford Garda\u00ed have urged motorists to \u201cavoid the location if possible and use alternative routes\u201d and to \u201callow extra time for your journey and drive with caution\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Emergency services are at the scene. Stock image. Photo: Niall Carson\/PA.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s News in 90 seconds – Monday, December 1st 2025<\/p>\n
Wexford Garda\u00ed are appealing for anyone who may have witnessed this tragic incident to come forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny road users who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) and were travelling in the area between 6.00am and 6.30am on Monday 1st December 2025, are asked to make this footage available to investigating Garda\u00ed,\u201d a statement said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone with any information should contact Wexford Garda Station on 053 9165200, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.\u201d<\/p>\n
An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na issued an additional warning that there are numerous reports of flooding on the roads in the area and have urged all motorists to take extra care on the roads this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREAKING\u00a0|\u00a0 Emergency services are at the scene. Stock image. Photo: Niall Carson\/PA. A motorcyclist aged in his 30s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,10489,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-169095","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-padraig-byrne","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169095","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=169095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}