{"id":250971,"date":"2026-01-18T10:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/250971\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T10:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:23:07","slug":"teenager-dies-in-early-morning-galway-crash-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/250971\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager dies in early morning Galway crash \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A teenager has died in a road crash in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/galway\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/galway\/\">Galway<\/a>. The incident occurred on the N65 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/loughrea\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/loughrea\/\">Loughrea<\/a> at about 2.20am on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> and emergency services responded to the single-vehicle collision at Moyleen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cA passenger, an adult male in his late teens, was pronounced deceased at the scene. His body has been removed to the mortuary at Portiuncula Hospital Ballinasloe,\u201d garda\u00ed said in a statement on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The coroner was notified and a postmortem examination is due to take place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The driver and two other passengers were brought by ambulance to University Hospital Galway with non-life-threatening injuries. The road was closed for examination by Garda forensic collision investigators. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed have appealed for anyone who may have witnessed the collision to make contact. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Road users  who were travelling on the relevant  stretch of the N65 between 2am and 2.30am and who may have camera footage are asked to make it available. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with information can contact Loughrea Garda station on (091) 842870, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager has died in a road crash in Co Galway. The incident occurred on the N65 at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,4500,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-250971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-galway","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\/250971","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=250971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}