{"id":474885,"date":"2026-05-30T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474885\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:00:11","slug":"man-in-his-20s-dies-following-car-crash-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474885\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in his 20s dies following car crash in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 20s has died following a road crash in the early hours of the morning in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>The single-vehicle crash occurred on the R121 at The Ward, Finglas, Co Dublin, at around 12:40am.<\/p>\n<p>The man in his 20s, who was driving the car, was taken to Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown for treatment of serious injuries. He was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner has been notified.<\/p>\n<p>A passenger, also in his 20s, was taken to hospital as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>The road was closed for a technical examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators and is expected to reopen this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing to road users who may have camera footage (including dash-cam), who were travelling on the R121 between 11:50pm and 12:40am, to make the footage available to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Finglas Garda Station on 01 666 7500, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 20s has died following a road crash in the early hours of the morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-474885","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\/474885","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=474885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}