{"id":228397,"date":"2026-01-05T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/228397\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:11:08","slug":"tragic-young-father-who-became-countrys-first-road-crash-victim-issued-heartbreaking-new-years-wish-less-than-48-hours-before-losing-his-life-in-horror-three-vehicle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/228397\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic young father who became country\u2019s first road crash victim issued heartbreaking new year\u2019s wish less than 48 hours before losing his life in horror three vehicle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The late Francis Kelly.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/15c0ad9f-1ccf-4d52-b7ae-dd66a72aaeaa.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)\">The late Francis Kelly.<\/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)\">A young father of four who became the country\u2019s first road crash victim of the new year heartbreakingly took to social media to wish his family and friends a \u201chappy and healthy 2026\u201d less than 48 hours before losing his life in a three car collision.<\/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)\">Thirty-six-year-old Francis Kelly died when the car he was driving collided with another car and a van along a stretch of the main N4 on the outskirts of Edgeworthstown, Co Longford on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The late Francis Kelly. A young father of four who became the country\u2019s first road crash victim of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,23576,43],"class_list":["post-228397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liam-cosgrove","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228397","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=228397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}