{"id":506190,"date":"2026-06-18T14:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/506190\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:14:16","slug":"motorcycle-driver-airlifted-to-cork-university-hospital-after-west-cork-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/506190\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle driver airlifted to Cork University Hospital after West Cork crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A man in his 60s has been airlifted to Cork University Hospital (CUH) following a road traffic collision in West Cork yesterday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> The incident, involving a motorcycle and a car, occurred at Snave in Bantry at approximately 6.40pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended the scene where the driver of the motorcycle, a man in his 60s, was airlifted to CUH for treatment of injuries believed to be non-life-threatening at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> The passenger of the motorcycle, a woman in her 50s, was also taken to CUH as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> A spokesperson for An Garda S\u00edoich\u00e1na told  The Echo that no other injuries were reported in relation to this incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> No additional information is available as \u201cinvestigations are ongoing,\u201d the garda spokesperson said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 60s has been airlifted to Cork University Hospital (CUH) following a road traffic collision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-506190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506190","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=506190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}