{"id":17826,"date":"2025-09-13T01:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/17826\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T01:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:39:06","slug":"cyclist-80s-dies-following-hit-and-run-in-co-meath-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/17826\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist (80s) dies following hit-and-run in Co Meath \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">A cyclist in his 80s has died following a hit-and-run incident at Batterstown, Ballivor, Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\/\">Meath<\/a>, on Friday  morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed and emergency services responded to the fatal crash on the R156 shortly after 9.59am. The vehicle involved failed to remain at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The cyclist was discovered unresponsive and removed to Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown, where he was subsequently pronounced deceased. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The road is currently closed and will be examined by garda\u00ed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">They have appealed  for witnesses and are  particularly interested in the movements of heavy goods vehicles (rigid or articulated trucks) in the area at the time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Any road users who may have camera footage, including dashcam, and were travelling in the area of Batterstown, Ballivor, Co Meath, between 9.30am and 10.00am on Friday, are asked to make this footage available to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with any information is asked to contact Trim Garda station on (046) 948 1540, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cyclist in his 80s has died following a hit-and-run incident at Batterstown, Ballivor, Co Meath, on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,15949,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-17826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-meath","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17826","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=17826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}