{"id":386337,"date":"2026-04-07T12:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/386337\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:46:08","slug":"man-60s-killed-in-co-louth-road-traffic-collision-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/386337\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (60s) killed in Co Louth road traffic collision \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man was pronounced dead at the scene of a fatal road collision in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/louth\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/louth\/\">Co Louth<\/a> on Monday night.<\/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> and emergency services responded to the incident on the N53 at Rassan, near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dundalk\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dundalk\/\">Dundalk<\/a>, at around 10.15pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two-cars were involved in the collision, with the driver of one vehicle, a man in his late 60s, pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">His body was removed to Louth County Hospital, where a postmortem was due to take place. The coroner has been notified, An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A woman aged in her 20s, who was travelling in the second car, was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The scene was cordoned off and preserved to allow for a technical examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators. Traffic diversions were in place on Monday morning, garda\u00ed said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The force appealed to anyone who witnessed the crash to come forward, including those who may have dashcam footage from the area around the time of the collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man\u2019s death brings the number of people killed on the State\u2019s roads so far this year to 47, according to Garda statistics. A total of 42 people had died in road traffic incidents in the same period last year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was pronounced dead at the scene of a fatal road collision in Co Louth on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,9690,42,9689,43,11318,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-386337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-dundalk","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-louth","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-road-safety","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386337","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=386337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}