{"id":421923,"date":"2026-04-28T16:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421923\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:59:09","slug":"pedestrian-80s-airlifted-to-hospital-after-being-struck-by-car-in-longford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421923\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian (80s) airlifted to hospital after being struck by car in Longford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian in his 80s was airlifted to hospital after being struck by a car on Earl Street, Co Longford, on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said the man&#8217;s condition remains critical.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed and emergency services were alerted to a collision involving a car and a pedestrian at around 10am.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian, a man in his 80s, was airlifted to Beaumont for treatment of serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who witnessed the incident to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Road users who may have camera footage, including dash-cam footage and were travelling in the area between 9:45am and 10:15am on Tuesday are asked to make this available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Longford Garda Station on 043 3350570, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian in his 80s was airlifted to hospital after being struck by a car on Earl Street,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-421923","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\/421923","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=421923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}