{"id":204593,"date":"2025-12-22T04:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/204593\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T04:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:51:12","slug":"national-93-year-old-pedestrian-killed-in-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/204593\/","title":{"rendered":"National: 93-year-old pedestrian killed in collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 93-year-old man has been killed in a collision in County Down.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Patrick (Patsy) Brady was killed after he was struck by a silver Toyota Avensis last night in Rathfriland.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred shortly after 10:45pm, and he was pronounced dead at the scene by members of the emergency services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time, we don\u2019t believe that the driver of the Toyota has sustained serious injury,\u201d Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur enquiries are continuing, and we would appeal to anyone who witnessed the collision, or who may have digital footage which could assist with our investigation, to contact the Collision Investigation Unit on 101, quoting reference number 1587 20\/12\/25.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>National: 93-year-old pedestrian killed in collision was last modified:  December 21st, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 93-year-old man has been killed in a collision in County Down. Joseph Patrick (Patsy) Brady was killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-204593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204593","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=204593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}