{"id":417449,"date":"2026-04-25T20:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/417449\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T20:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:51:06","slug":"teenage-motorcyclist-dies-after-crash-in-co-donegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/417449\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage motorcyclist dies after crash in Co Donegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager has died following a crash involving a car and a motorbike in Co Donegal this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened at around 4.30pm on the R252 at An Cloch\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene and his body was removed to Letterkenny University Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>No other injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>The road has been closed for technical examination.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed have appealed for witnesses to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Road users who may have camera footage, including dash-cam footage and were travelling in the area between 4pm and 5pm have been asked to make this available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Ballyshannon Garda Station on 071 985 8530, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager has died following a crash involving a car and a motorbike in Co Donegal this afternoon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-417449","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\/417449","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=417449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}