{"id":422876,"date":"2026-04-29T05:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422876\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T05:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:01:09","slug":"pedestrian-critical-after-being-knocked-down-in-longford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422876\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian critical after being knocked down in Longford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 80s is in a critical condition after being knocked down in Longford town this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed and emergency services were alerted to the incident involving a car and a pedestrian on Earl Street at around 10am.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian, a man in his 80s, was airlifted to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin where he is said to be in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing for information and are asking anyone who witnessed the incident to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>They have made a particular appeal for road users who may have camera footage including dash cam footage and who were in the area between 9.45am and 10.15am to make it available to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 80s is in a critical condition after being knocked down in Longford town this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-422876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422876","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=422876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}