A woman in her 80s who was involved in a road crash on the Meath-Louth border on Friday has since died in hospital.<\/p>\n
Shortly after 11.10am on Friday 19 December, garda\u00ed and emergency services responded to a collision involving five vehicles on the M1 northbound at Platin, Drogheda, just before the toll bridge.<\/p>\n
Three people were taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda for treatment. One of them, a woman, aged in her 80s, has since died.<\/p>\n
The Coroner has been notified and a post-mortem examination will take place in due course.<\/p>\n
A Senior Investigating Officer has been appointed to lead the investigation and garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the collision to contact them.<\/p>\n
Any road users who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) and were travelling in the area at the time are asked to make it available to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses to the crash to contact Ashbourne Garda Station on (01) 8010600, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman in her 80s who was involved in a road crash on the Meath-Louth border on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-206722","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\/206722","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=206722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}