{"id":251014,"date":"2026-01-18T10:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251014\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T10:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:59:07","slug":"teenager-dies-following-single-vehicle-collision-in-co-galway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251014\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager dies following single-vehicle collision in Co Galway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager has died following a single-vehicle collision in Loughrea, Co Galway, in the early hours of Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened on the N65 at Moyleen at 2:20 am.<\/p>\n<p>A 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.<\/p>\n<p>The Coroner has been notified, and a post-mortem examination will take place in due course.<\/p>\n<p>The driver and two other passengers were brought by ambulance to University Hospital Galway with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The road is currently closed for examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this collision to contact them.<\/p>\n<p>Any road users who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) and were travelling on the N65 Loughrea to Ballinasloe road at Moyleen between 2:00am and 2:30am are asked to make this footage available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to 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 following a single-vehicle collision in Loughrea, Co Galway, in the early hours of Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-251014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251014","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=251014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}