A pedestrian in his 40s has died after he was struck by a car in Mitchelstown, Co Cork last night.<\/p>\n
The incident happened at around 9.15pm between Junction 11 and Junction 12 northbound on the M8.<\/p>\n
His body has been taken to the mortuary at Cork University Hospital where a post-mortem examination will take place.<\/p>\n
Its understood he was originally from eastern Europe and had been living in Mitchelstown recently.<\/p>\n
The driver of the car, a man in his 20s, was uninjured.<\/p>\n
The stretch of motorway remains closed for forensic examination with local diversions in place.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed have appealed for witnesses to come forward.<\/p>\n
They particularly want to speak to any road users who may have camera footage, including dash-cam, and were traveling in the area at the time of the collision.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact Fermoy Garda Station on 025 82 100, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian in his 40s has died after he was struck by a car in Mitchelstown, Co Cork…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-34396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34396","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=34396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}