{"id":476358,"date":"2026-05-31T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/476358\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:00:10","slug":"man-60s-killed-in-co-roscommon-crash-marking-second-road-death-of-weekend-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/476358\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (60s) killed in Co Roscommon crash, marking second road death of weekend \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man in his 60s has died in a single-vehicle crash in Co Roscommon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The male driver was the sole occupant of the car. He was pronounced dead at the scene in Carrigans Park, Donamon. <\/p>\n

The incident is believed to have taken place early on Sunday morning. The man\u2019s remains were removed to Galway University Hospital, with a postmortem to take place in due course.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed<\/a> asked for witnesses to share information or footage they may have. <\/p>\n

The death is the second on the State\u2019s roads over the extended weekend.<\/p>\n

A man in his 20s died<\/a> after a single-vehicle crash in Co Dublin<\/a> in the early hours of Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

It brings the total number of road deaths this year to 71, slightly higher than at the same stage last year. <\/p>\n

Of the deaths recorded, 31 have involved drivers, the largest single group among fatalities.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, garda\u00ed said in a statement that a driver was caught speeding at 93km\/h in a 50km\/h zone on the N21 in Abbeyfeale, Co Limerick<\/a>, as officers cracked down on road offences<\/a> over the bank holiday weekend.<\/p>\n

The driver is one of more than 2,250 who have been caught speeding over the extended weekend so far.<\/p>\n

Another driver was detected at 161km\/h in a 100km\/h zone on the N10 in Danesfort, Co Kilkenny<\/a>. In Co Galway<\/a>, a car was spotted at 117km\/h on the R364 in Williamstown, a road with an 80km\/h speed limit.<\/p>\n

A special bank holiday roads policing operation is in place since Thursday, continuing to Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed<\/a> have arrested 92 people driving under the influence of an intoxicant, both alcohol and drugs. A further 270 drivers were caught holding a mobile phone while driving or failing to wear a seat belt.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed, in conjunction with the 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

[\u00a0Opinion: We underestimate the true impact of our dangerous roadsOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

\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

Mandatory intoxicant testing and regular checkpoints have been set up across the country, with garda\u00ed also targeting speeding, using a mobile phone while driving and those not wearing seat belts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 60s has died in a single-vehicle crash in Co Roscommon. The male driver was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,4500,1346,42,12969,1396,43,11318,21727,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-476358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-galway","tag-garda-siochana","tag-headlines","tag-kilkenny","tag-limerick","tag-news","tag-road-safety","tag-roscommon","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476358","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=476358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}