{"id":206761,"date":"2025-12-23T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/206761\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:07:07","slug":"woman-80s-dies-after-five-vehicle-motorway-collision-last-friday-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/206761\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman (80s) dies after five-vehicle motorway collision last Friday \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A woman in her 80s has died after a motorway collision involving five vehicles on the M1 near Drogheda, Co Louth, last Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed and the emergency services responded to the incident on the northbound carriageway at Platin, just before the toll bridge, shortly after 11.10am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Three people were taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. One of those, the woman in her 80s, has since died. The coroner has been notified and a postmortem will take place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A senior investigating officer has been appointed to lead the investigation, and garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses to the collision to contact them as investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Road users who were in the area at the time, or those with camera or dash-cam footage of the incident, are asked to contact investigators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Those with information are asked to contact Ashbourne Garda Station at 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 has died after a motorway collision involving five vehicles on the M1 near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-206761","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\/206761","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=206761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}