{"id":493125,"date":"2026-06-10T21:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/493125\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T21:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:15:09","slug":"man-80s-killed-in-crash-involving-truck-in-co-louth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/493125\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 80s, killed in crash involving truck in Co Louth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 80s has been killed in a crash involving a car and a truck in Co Louth.<\/p>\n<p>The collision occurred on the N2 at Edmondstown in Ardee at around 5.40pm.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who was the driver of the car, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The road is currently closed, pending a technical examination by garda\u00ed, and local diversions are in place.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the collision to come forward, particularly road users who may have camera footage, including dash-cam, and were travelling in the area of Edmondstown between 5pm and 6pm.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Drogheda Garda Station on (041) 987 4200, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 80s has been killed in a crash involving a car and a truck in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-493125","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\/493125","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=493125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}