{"id":494529,"date":"2026-06-11T16:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/494529\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:02:08","slug":"two-children-seriously-injured-in-crash-in-co-mayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/494529\/","title":{"rendered":"Two children seriously injured in crash in Co Mayo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two children were airlifted to Temple Street Children&#8217;s Hospital in Dublin after they were seriously injured in a two-car crash in Co Mayo last night.<\/p>\n<p>The children, one boy and one girl, were passengers in a car when it collided with another on the N59 at Clooneen in Westport at around 7.20pm.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the car, a man in his 30s, was airlifted to University Hospital Galway for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The driver and sole occupant of the other car was taken to Mayo University Hospital for treatment of serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who witnessed the incident to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Road users who may have camera footage, including dash-cam footage and were travelling in the area between 7pm and 7.30pm yesterday are asked to make this available to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Westport Garda Station on 098 50230 the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two children were airlifted to Temple Street Children&#8217;s Hospital in Dublin after they were seriously injured in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-494529","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\/494529","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=494529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}