{"id":448700,"date":"2026-05-14T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/448700\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:46:10","slug":"lucky-escape-for-louth-motorist-as-tree-falls-from-school-grounds-on-to-bonnet-of-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/448700\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky escape for Louth motorist as tree falls from school grounds on to bonnet of car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A driver had a lucky escape when a tree fell on the bonnet of her car at St Mary's Road, Dundalk on Wednesday evening. Photo: Cllr Robert Nash\/Facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/y's Road tree down.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A driver had a lucky escape when a tree fell on the bonnet of her car at St Mary&#8217;s Road, Dundalk on Wednesday evening. Photo: Cllr Robert Nash\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A motorist narrowly escaped serious injury when a tree fell on the bonnet of her car while she was driving in Dundalk, Louth, on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The incident happened around 6.45 pm when a tree in the grounds of St Mary\u2019s College fell across St Mary\u2019s Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Emergency services, including an ambulance crew, gardai and Louth County Council\u2019s Fire and Rescue Service attended and the woman was treated at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The woman had a lucky escape, according to an eye witness, as the bonnet of the car was extensively damaged so she escaped serious injury by a matter of inches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The busy road, which links the Inner Relief Road with the town centre, was closed for a time before the tree was removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There were strong gusts of wind throughout the day which poses a danger in the summer time when when trees are in full leaf. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver had a lucky escape when a tree fell on the bonnet of her car at St&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,4277,43],"class_list":["post-448700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-margaret-roddy","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448700","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=448700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}