{"id":287932,"date":"2026-02-08T22:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287932\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T22:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:47:06","slug":"man-70s-dies-in-single-car-crash-in-co-tipperary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287932\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 70s, dies in single-car crash in Co Tipperary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 70s has died after a single-car crash in Co Tipperary.<\/p>\n<p>The man was the sole occupant of the vehicle, which crashed on the R660 at Holycross at around 2.15pm.<\/p>\n<p>He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>His body was removed to the mortuary at University Hospital Limerick (UHL), where a post-mortem examination will be conducted.<\/p>\n<p>The local coroner has also been notified.<\/p>\n<p>A technical examination of the scene has been carried out by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators and the road has since fully reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who witnessed the incident to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Road users who may have camera footage, including dash-cam and were travelling on the R660 at Holycross around the time of the collision are asked to make this footage available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Thurles Garda Station on (0504) 25100, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident in Co Tipperary, five people were injured in a single-vehicle crash involving an SUV.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at Toem near Cappawhite at 6.15am this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Three men, aged in their 30s, and two women, aged in their 20s, suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>They were taken to UHL for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are also appealing for witnesses in relation to this incident. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 70s has died after a single-car crash in Co Tipperary. The man was the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-287932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287932","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=287932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}