{"id":385990,"date":"2026-04-07T07:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/385990\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:57:07","slug":"man-60s-dies-in-two-car-collision-in-co-louth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/385990\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 60s, dies in two-car collision in Co Louth"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man in his 60s has died following a two-car collision in Co Louth last night.<\/p>\n

The man, who was driving one of the cars, was pronounced dead at the scene of the collision, which occurred on the N53 at Rassan near Dundalk at around 10.15pm.<\/p>\n

A woman in her 20s, who was in the second car, was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

The man’s body was removed to Louth County Hospital in Dundalk, where a post-mortem examination is due to be carried out.<\/p>\n

The road is closed for a technical examination and local diversions are in place.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed are appealing for any witnesses, or any road users with camera footage (including dash-cam), to contact Dundalk Garda Station on 042 9388400, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n

The man was the second person to die on Irish roads on Easter Monday, after a man in his 50s died in single-vehicle crash Castletownroche in Co Cork<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 60s has died following a two-car collision in Co Louth last night. The man,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-385990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385990","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=385990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}