{"id":512984,"date":"2026-06-22T18:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/512984\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:04:10","slug":"girl-6-dies-in-newry-after-being-struck-by-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/512984\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 6, dies in Newry after being struck by van"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young girl has died after being hit by a van in Newry last night.<\/p>\n<p>Kourtney Khloe McCormick died in hospital after she was knocked down in the Springfarm Heights area at around 9.25pm.<\/p>\n<p>She had recently turned six years old.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The driver of the black Ford Tourneo was arrested\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0024905b-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe driver of the black Ford Tourneo was arrested<\/p>\n<p>A 40-year-old woman who was driving the van, a black Ford Tourneo, was arrested at the scene and remains in custody.<\/p>\n<p>The Carnagat Road remains closed at its junctions with Springfarm Heights and Stony Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Police appealed for witnesses or anyone who may have footage of what happened to contact them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young girl has died after being hit by a van in Newry last night. Kourtney Khloe McCormick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-512984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512984","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=512984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}