{"id":413626,"date":"2026-04-23T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413626\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:11:09","slug":"child-in-critical-condition-and-airlifted-to-hospital-following-serious-road-crash-in-co-westmeath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413626\/","title":{"rendered":"Child in critical condition and airlifted to hospital following serious road crash in Co Westmeath"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breaking\u00a0|\u00a0\"Temple<\/p>\n

Temple Street Hospital in Dublin. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n

A child has been critically injured following a road traffic collision in Co Westmeath. <\/p>\n

Shortly before 7.30pm on Wednesday, garda\u00ed and emergency services were alerted to a collision involving a pedestrian and a car at Killallon Road on the L6821, Clonmellon, Co Westmeath.<\/p>\n

The pedestrian, a female child, was airlifted to Temple Street Children\u2019s Hospital for treatment of serious injuries.<\/p>\n

Her condition remains critical.<\/p>\n

The scene is preserved for technical examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators.<\/p>\n

The road is currently closed with local diversions in place.<\/p>\n

\"Temple<\/p>\n

Temple Street Hospital in Dublin. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n

News in 90 Seconds – 23rd April 2026<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who witnessed the incident to come forward. Road users who may have camera footage, including dash-cam footage and were travelling in the area between 6.45pm and 7.45pm on Wednesday 22nd April 2026 are asked to make this available to investigating Garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n

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":"Breaking\u00a0|\u00a0 Temple Street Hospital in Dublin. Photo: Getty A child has been critically injured following a road traffic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,81309,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-413626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-seoirse-mulgrew","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413626","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=413626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}