{"id":29493,"date":"2025-09-18T19:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/29493\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T19:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:56:07","slug":"cork-crash-closes-major-city-road-as-man-dies-in-separate-dumper-truck-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/29493\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork crash closes major city road as man dies in separate dumper truck accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major road in Cork Cty closed on Thursday evening as emergency services and garda\u00ed attended the scene of a serious collision.<\/p>\n<p>Albert Street was shut from the old Sextant Bar towards the South Link Road from around 6.25pm. Garda\u00ed diverted traffic from Albert Road onto the South Link Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The closure and diversions are expected to remain in place through the evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Meanwhile, a man in his 40s died in Ballycotton, Co Cork, after an accident involving a dumper truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed and emergency services arrived at Church Road at 3.30pm after the alarm was raised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It is understood the man was carrying out works in the area when his dumper truck struck him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">His body will be removed to Cork University Hospital for an autopsy examination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda forensic collision investigators will attend the scene, and the L3633 road has been closed with local diversions in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has been notified and will carry out a full investigation. The Coroner has also been informed, and an inquest will take place in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major road in Cork Cty closed on Thursday evening as emergency services and garda\u00ed attended the scene&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,6999,43,1907,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-29493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-munster","tag-news","tag-regional","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29493","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=29493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}