{"id":202681,"date":"2025-12-20T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202681\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:24:09","slug":"man-involved-in-road-crash-dies-after-feeling-unwell-at-scene-in-co-westmeath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202681\/","title":{"rendered":"Man involved in road crash dies after feeling unwell at scene in Co. Westmeath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scene has been examined and the local coroner has been notified<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/37_Garda-Stock.jpg\" alt=\"Most of the new officers will be sent to two inner city stations\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The man was pronounced dead at the scene. (stock image)(Image: Garda\u00ed)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A man, 60s, has died following a road traffic collision in Co. Westmeath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The two vehicle crash occurred on Royal Canal Way at Cushinstown, Killucan shortly before 2.15pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Following the collision, one of the drivers involved, a man in his 60s became unwell and was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later. None of the other occupants required treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The scene has been examined and the local coroner has been notified. A postmortem examination will be arranged. Results of the postmortem will assist Garda\u00ed in determining the course of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the collision to contact them,&#8221; a spokesperson said on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Any road users who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) and were travelling in the area at the time are asked to make this footage available to investigating Garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Anyone with information is asked to contact Mullingar Garda Station on (044) 938 4000, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">For more of the latest breaking news from the Irish Mirror check out our homepage <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scene has been examined and the local coroner has been notifiedThe man was pronounced dead at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,16669],"class_list":["post-202681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-road-deaths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202681","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=202681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}