A motorcyclist in his 40s has died following a collision in Co Cork yesterday.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed and emergency services responded to reports of a collision involving a car and a motorbike on the N73 near Mitchelstown, Co Cork, at around 1.40pm.<\/p>\n
The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
His body was taken to the mortuary at Cork University Hospital where a post-mortem examination will take place.<\/p>\n
The coroner has been notified.<\/p>\n
The female driver of the car, aged in her 30s, was taken to Tipperary University Hospital, Clonmel, as a precaution.<\/p>\n
A technical examination of the road was carried out by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators, and has since reopened.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are appealing to road users who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) and were travelling on the N73 near Mitchelstown, Co Cork, between 1pm and 2pm yesterday, to make it available to them.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact Fermoy Garda Station on (025) 82100, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcyclist in his 40s has died following a collision in Co Cork yesterday. Garda\u00ed and emergency services…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-512242","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\/512242","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=512242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}