{"id":264721,"date":"2026-01-26T13:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/264721\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T13:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:16:06","slug":"teenage-girl-dies-after-scrambler-crash-in-finglas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/264721\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage girl dies after scrambler crash in Finglas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenage girl has died after being struck by a scrambler bike in Finglas in west Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 2.20pm on the Ratoath Road between Scribblestown and Dunsink.<\/p>\n<p>The girl was brought to Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown for treatment of her injuries, where she has since died.<\/p>\n<p>A man aged in his teens has been arrested in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He is being held at a garda station in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>A technical examination was conducted by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators and the road has reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this collision to contact them, in particular any road users or pedestrians who may have footage, including dash-cam, and who were in the area between 2.10pm and 2.40pm.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Finglas Garda Station on (01) 6667500, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage girl has died after being struck by a scrambler bike in Finglas in west Dublin. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-264721","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\/264721","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=264721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}