{"id":316066,"date":"2026-02-25T06:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/316066\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T06:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:47:09","slug":"man-30s-killed-in-collision-on-a5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/316066\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (30s) killed in collision on A5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 36-year-old man has been killed following a two-vehicle collision in the Garvaghy area.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before 10:15 pm on Monday evening, police received a report of the collision involving a white Audi A6 and a silver Nissan Micra on the Omagh Road, A5.<\/p>\n<p>A PSNI spokesperson said officers responded to the collision alongside colleagues from other emergency services.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We can confirm a man, aged 36, has sadly died following a two-vehicle road traffic collision in the Garvaghy area on the Omagh Road, A5 on Monday evening, 23rd February. Full details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XANtgI6SaW\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/XANtgI6SaW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0rRe2aJxV9\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/0rRe2aJxV9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Police Service NI (@PoliceServiceNI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoliceServiceNI\/status\/2026335593441968215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadly, the driver of the Nissan Micra was pronounced deceased at the scene,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMedical treatment was provided to the three occupants of the Audi A6 who were then taken onward to hospital for treatment to injuries not believed to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Omagh Road, between Ballygawley and Omagh which was closed in both directions as we conducted a forensic examination overnight and into this morning, has now fully re-opened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inquiries into the incident are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 36-year-old man has been killed following a two-vehicle collision in the Garvaghy area. Shortly before 10:15 pm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-316066","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\/316066","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=316066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}