{"id":476174,"date":"2026-05-31T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/476174\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:42:08","slug":"man-in-his-60s-dies-following-car-crash-in-roscommon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/476174\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in his 60s dies following car crash in Roscommon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 60s has died following a car crash in Co Roscommon this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at Carrigans Park, Donamon, in Co Roscommon.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who was driving the car, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>He was the sole occupant of the car.<\/p>\n<p>The man&#8217;s body was taken to the mortuary at University Hospital Galway. A post-mortem examination will take place in due course and the coroner has been notified.<\/p>\n<p>The road was closed today for a technical examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators, with local diversions in place.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing to road users who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) &#8211; who were travelling in the area of Carrigans Park, Donamon, Co Roscommon, between 5am and 9am &#8211; to make it available to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Roscommon Garda Station on 090 663 8300, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 60s has died following a car crash in Co Roscommon this morning. The incident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-476174","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\/476174","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=476174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}