{"id":288064,"date":"2026-02-09T00:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/288064\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T00:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:36:07","slug":"man-70s-dies-following-car-crash-in-co-tipperary-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/288064\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (70s) dies following car crash in Co Tipperary \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man in his 70s has died following a road crash in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tipperary\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tipperary\/\">Co Tipperary<\/a> on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Shortly after 2.15pm, garda\u00ed and emergency services responded to single-vehicle crash involving a car on the R660 at Holycross. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man, who was the sole occupant of the vehicle, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">His body has been removed to the mortuary at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/university-hospital-limerick\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/university-hospital-limerick\/\">University Hospital Limerick<\/a>, where a postmortem examination will take place. The local coroner has been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A technical examination of the scene was carried out by <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<\/a> forensic collision investigators and the road has since fully reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who witnessed the incident to come forward. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They are particularly requesting road users who may have camera footage, such as dashcam, and were travelling on the R660 at Holycross around the time of the collision to make this footage available to investigators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 70s has died following a road crash in Co Tipperary on Sunday afternoon. Shortly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,43,9123,40,38,41,39,17229],"class_list":{"0":"post-288064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-tipperary","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories","16":"tag-university-hospital-limerick"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288064","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=288064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}