{"id":385795,"date":"2026-04-07T04:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/385795\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T04:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:56:10","slug":"man-killed-in-co-cork-crash-pedestrian-hit-by-lorry-in-co-donegal-last-week-dies-in-hospital-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/385795\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in Co Cork crash, pedestrian hit by lorry in Co Donegal last week dies in hospital \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses following a crash in Co Cork in which a man in his 50s died. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man was driving a car that crashed at Castletownroche at about 12.50pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man, who was the sole occupant of the car, was pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">His body has been removed to Cork University Hospital for a postmortem examination. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Earlier, garda\u00ed said a pedestrian who was knocked down by a lorry in Co Donegal last week has died in hospita. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><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\u00ed <\/a>are appealing for witnesses to the incident, which took place at Station Roundabout, Port Road, Letterkenny, at about 3pm last Friday, to contact them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The pedestrian, a woman in her 40s, was taken to Letterkenny University Hospital, where she died on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed have asked any road users who were travelling in the area between 2.15pm and 3.15pm on Friday and may have video footage to contact them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The two deaths bring the total number of fatalities on Irish roads in 2026 to 44.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Meanwhile, garda\u00ed in Dublin are investigating an incident in which a pedestrian was hit by a bus in Terenure on the city\u2019s southside on Monday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Shortly after 10am, garda\u00ed and emergency services were alerted to a collision at Terenure Cross, Dublin 6W.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A woman in her 40s was taken to Beaumont Hospital for treatment of serious injuries. No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A technical examination of the scene is being carried out by Garda forensic collision investigators and the road was closed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with information about any of the incidents is asked to contact the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses following a crash in Co Cork in which a man in his 50s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-385795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385795","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=385795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}