{"id":211424,"date":"2025-12-26T06:46:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211424\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T06:46:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:46:27","slug":"a-christmas-nightmare-for-the-families-driver-killed-in-horror-crash-as-car-and-lorry-collide-in-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211424\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Christmas nightmare for the families\u2019 \u2013 driver killed in horror crash as car and lorry collide in Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Garda\u00ed closed the N20 for a technical examination of the scene and the two vehicles involved (Pic: Brendan Gleeson)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/215e18d0-3098-4146-a11c-080a6b32e661.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Garda\u00ed closed the N20 for a technical examination of the scene and the two vehicles involved (Pic: Brendan Gleeson)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One person died after their car exploded into a ball of flames when it collided with a truck, which also caught fire, in the early hours of Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The fatal road traffic collision occurred between Banogue and O\u2019Rourke\u2019s Cross, near Bruree at 2am, and garda\u00ed closed the N20 for a technical examination of the scene and the two vehicles involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed closed the N20 for a technical examination of the scene and the two vehicles involved (Pic: Brendan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-211424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211424","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=211424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}