{"id":227218,"date":"2026-01-04T17:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227218\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T17:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:47:08","slug":"two-men-30s-killed-in-separate-crashes-in-kerry-and-longford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227218\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men, 30s, killed in separate crashes in Kerry and Longford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have died in separate crashes in Kerry and Longford this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In Kerry, a man in his 30s died following a single-vehicle on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed and emergency services personnel attended the scene the of the crash, which happened when a car collided with a tree on the L3013 at Knockdooragh in Headford at approximately 11.20pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The driver of the car, a man aged in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The road is currently closed pending an examination by Forensic Collision Investigators. Local diversions have been in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Earlier on Saturday evening, a man in his 30s died in a crash involving <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/arid-41769443.html\">two cars and a van in Co Longford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The crash took place on the Longford Town side of the N4 after the Edgeworthstown Roundabout at approximately 7pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The man who died was the driver of one of the cars involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Investigating garda\u00ed have issued an appeal for witnesses to both collisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Anyone with information on the crashes has been asked to contact the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have died in separate crashes in Kerry and Longford this weekend. In Kerry, a man in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7782,61,60,43,11318],"class_list":["post-227218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-gardai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-road-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227218","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=227218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}