A teenage spectator at the Donegal International Rally has died following an accident involving a participating car on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Motorsport Ireland and Donegal Motor Club this evening issued a joint statement in which they said that they were \u201cdeeply saddened\u201d to confirm the death of a young man following an accident at the twelfth stage of the rally.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a mark of respect, the organisers have cancelled the remainder of the event<\/p>\n
“As the governing body for four-wheeled motorsport in Ireland, Motorsport Ireland together with An Garda Sioch\u00e1na, have begun a full investigation into the circumstances of the accident.<\/p>\n
Motorsport Ireland is aware that video footage of the accident is circulating on social media and would ask anyone that sees it not to share it.<\/p>\n
“Motorsport Ireland and Donegal Motor Club express their deepest sympathies to the family of the deceased and ask that everyone respect their privacy at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, it is understood that the teenager was transferred by ambulance to Letterkenny University Hospital shortly before 5pm today.<\/p>\n
The youth, who was in his mid-teens, was subsequently pronounced dead at the hospital. A postmortem examination will take place.<\/p>\n
It is understood that two other spectators were also treated in hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
The scene of the accident at Trentagh, near Kilmacrennan, has been preserved for a technical examination. Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage spectator at the Donegal International Rally has died following an accident involving a participating car on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-510362","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\/510362","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=510362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}