{"id":347483,"date":"2026-03-15T12:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T12:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/347483\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T12:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T12:42:07","slug":"man-20s-dies-in-co-westmeath-road-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/347483\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 20s, dies in Co Westmeath road crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 20s has died in a single-vehicle road crash in Co Westmeath.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at Ballinafid on the N4, the main Dublin to Sligo road, shortly before 1am.<\/p>\n<p>The young man, who was the driver of the car, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The N4 between Mullingar and Rathowen remains closed for a technical examination and diversions are in place.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing for any witnesses to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>They are asking road users who were travelling on the N4 and may have camera footage &#8211; including dash cam footage &#8211; to make it available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Mullingar Garda Station on 044-9384000, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 20s has died in a single-vehicle road crash in Co Westmeath. The crash happened&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-347483","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\/347483","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=347483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}