{"id":493264,"date":"2026-06-10T23:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/493264\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T23:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:03:11","slug":"man-dies-after-collision-with-truck-in-louth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/493264\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after collision with truck in Louth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses following a fatal road crash in Co Louth.<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 80s died after the car he was driving was involved in a collision with a truck on the N2 at Edmondstown near Ardee shortly before 6pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The road remains closed for a forensic examination, and Garda\u00ed are asking anyone who witnessed the collision or has dashcam footage from the area to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses following a fatal road crash in Co Louth. A man in his 80s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-493264","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\/493264","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=493264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}