{"id":513645,"date":"2026-06-23T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/513645\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:08:09","slug":"six-year-old-girl-dies-after-being-struck-by-van-in-newry-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/513645\/","title":{"rendered":"Six-year-old girl dies after being struck by van in Newry \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A six-year-old girl has died after she was struck by a van in Newry, Co Armagh, on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Police said Kourtney Khloe McCormick, who had just turned six, died following the incident involving a black Ford Tourneo van in the Springfarm Heights area at around 9.25pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She died in hospital from her injuries. A 40-year-old woman was arrested at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni\/\">Police Service of Northern Ireland<\/a> spokesperson issued an appeal for information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe young girl was taken to hospital where she tragically later died from her injuries,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cOfficers attended and the driver of the van, a 40-year-old woman, was arrested at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cShe remains in custody at this time as inquiries continue into the circumstances of the collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cPolice would like to hear from witnesses or anyone who may have captured dash-cam or other footage of what happened, which could assist with our inquiries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A six-year-old girl has died after she was struck by a van in Newry, Co Armagh, on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,21754,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-513645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513645","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=513645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}