{"id":512161,"date":"2026-06-22T06:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T06:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/512161\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T06:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T06:37:21","slug":"boy-14-in-critical-condition-after-e-bike-crash-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/512161\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy (14) in critical condition after e-bike crash \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A teenage boy was left in critical condition after an electric bike crash in Co Laois on Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident took place on Stradbally Road in Portlaoise shortly after 11pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two boys were on the e-bike with the passenger, aged 14, left in a serious condition in Temple Street hospital in Dublin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses to the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Emergency services and garda\u00ed attended the scene on the N80 in Portlaoise. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed said that a \u201cmale passenger in his early teens sustained serious injuries and was taken to hospital\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The statement added that his condition is understood to be critical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An adult male in his late teens, described as the driver of the e-bike, received medical assessment at the scene. It is understood no other vehicle was involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The scene has been examined by a Garda forensics team and the road has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the collision to come forward. Road users who were on the Stradbally Road between St Peter and Paul\u2019s Cemetery and St Fintan\u2019s hospital between 11pm and 11.30pm, who might have dashcam footage, are asked to make it available<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage boy was left in critical condition after an electric bike crash in Co Laois on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-512161","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\/512161","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=512161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}