{"id":475435,"date":"2026-05-31T00:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475435\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T00:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:42:10","slug":"man-20s-dies-after-car-crash-in-co-dublin-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475435\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (20s) dies after car crash in Co Dublin \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man in his 20s has been pronounced dead after a single-vehicle crash in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">Co Dublin<\/a> in the early hours of Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> are appealing for witnesses to the incident that took place on the R121 at The Ward in the north of the county at about 12.40am overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The driver of the car involved, aged in his 20s, was taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/connolly-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/connolly-hospital\/\">Connolly Hospital<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/blanchardstown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/blanchardstown\/\">Blanchardstown<\/a> with serious injuries. He was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A male passenger, also in his 20s, was taken to hospital as a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The coroner has been notified and the road was closed on Saturday morning for examination by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">Garda<\/a> technical team. It was expected to reopen in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed have appealed for witnesses to come forward, calling for those who may have footage from the area between 11.50pm on Friday and 12.40am on Saturday to make it available. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The death marks the 70th on the State\u2019s roads in 2026, tracking slightly above the figure at the same time last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Of the deaths recorded, 30 have involved drivers, the largest single group among fatalities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A special bank holiday roads policing operation is in place since Thursday, continuing to Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed, in conjunction with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety-authority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety-authority\/\">Road Safety Authority<\/a>, warned that the June bank holiday was one of the busiest periods on Irish roads, with summer festivities in full swing and increased road use as more people travel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cEvery member of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na on duty this weekend will be conducting road traffic enforcement activity. They will have an increased presence on the roads to detect intoxicated driving,\u201d a Garda statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed will also be targeting speeding, using a mobile phone while driving and not wearing seat belts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">All road users are being reminded to take extra care over the June bank holiday weekend. Drivers are urged to slow down, choose a speed appropriate to the conditions, never use a mobile phone while driving, always wear a seat belt, and never drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 20s has been pronounced dead after a single-vehicle crash in Co Dublin in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,615,1346,61,60,43,11318,49783],"class_list":["post-475435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-dublin","tag-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-road-safety","tag-road-safety-authority"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475435","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=475435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}