A teenage spectator killed after a crash during the Donegal International Rally on Saturday has been named by garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
The event was cancelled after Tadhg Callaghan Carter, 15, was killed and two others were injured at location 15 on special stage 12 Gartan.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed say that shortly before 5pm, they and other emergency services were alerted after a number of onlookers were injured \u201cin an incident involving a participating car\u201d at Trentagh, near Kilmacrennan.<\/p>\n
Tadhg was taken by ambulance from the scene to Letterkenny University Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
Two other spectators are receiving hospital treatment for non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed said the local coroner has been notified, a postmortem examination will be arranged and that the scene has been preserved for a technical examination.<\/p>\n
It is understood the crash happened when a competing car left the road at a left-hand bend.<\/p>\n
In a statement on Saturday, Motorsport Ireland and Donegal Motor Club said they cancelled the remainder of the event \u201cas a mark of respect\u201d.<\/p>\n
They said they were \u201cdeeply saddened\u201d by what had happened and expressed \u201cdeepest sympathies to the family of the deceased and ask that everyone respect their privacy at this time\u201d.<\/p>\n
Motorsport Ireland said that as the country\u2019s governing body for four-wheeled motorsport, it, along with garda\u00ed, has begun \u201ca full investigation into the circumstances of the accident\u201d.<\/p>\n
Both the organisation and the garda\u00ed say they are aware video footage of the accident is circulating on social media and have asked the public not to share it.<\/p>\n
The three-day event bills itself as \u201cone of the toughest rally challenges there is for drivers and teams\u201d.<\/p>\n
Participants compete in 20 stages around the north-west coast of the county .<\/p>\n
Organisers say it attracts more than 70,000 spectators and almost 400,000 view the rally on TV and online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage spectator killed after a crash during the Donegal International Rally on Saturday has been named by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-511238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511238","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=511238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}