{"id":476664,"date":"2026-05-31T22:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/476664\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T22:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:34:13","slug":"man-50s-dies-and-two-men-injured-following-crash-in-co-louth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/476664\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (50s) dies and two men injured following crash in Co Louth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has died following a crash between a jeep and two motorcycles at Dunmahon, Co. Louth, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred shortly before 12:30 pm.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of a motorcycle, a man in his 50s, was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>His body has been removed to the local mortuary where a post-mortem examination will take place in due course.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner has been notified.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of a motorcycle, a man in his 40s, was conveyed to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda for treatment of serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the jeep, a man in his was conveyed to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda for treatment of injuries believed to be non-life-threatening at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The road is currently closed for a technical examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Local diversions are in place.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing for any witnesses to this collision to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Road users who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) who were travelling in the area of the N52 near Dunmahon, Co. Louth between 12:15pm and 12:45pm on Sunday 31st May 2026, are asked to make this footage available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information is asked to contact Dundalk Garda Station on (042) 938 8400, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died following a crash between a jeep and two motorcycles at Dunmahon, Co. Louth, on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-476664","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\/476664","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=476664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}