{"id":520839,"date":"2026-06-27T07:15:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/520839\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T07:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:15:26","slug":"motorcyclist-dies-following-co-leitrim-crash-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/520839\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist dies following Co Leitrim crash \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A motorcyclist has died following a crash in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leitrim\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leitrim\/\">Leitrim<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man, aged in his 30s, suffered serious injuries following an incident on  the L1556 Ballinamore to Cloone road at about 8.40am on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was brought by air ambulance to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/beaumont-hospital\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/beaumont-hospital\/\">Beaumont Hospital<\/a> in Dublin, but was later pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na<\/a> said the coroner had been notified and a postmortem would take place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe road was closed for technical examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators and has since reopened,\u201d the force said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed at Carrick-on-Shannon are investigating the man\u2019s death and have appealed to anyone who witnessed the crash, or who may have camera footage from the area from between 8.15am and 9am, to come forward. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident brings the number of deaths on the State\u2019s roads so far this year to 86, an increase of 10 per cent when compared with the same period last year. The man is the 11th motorcyclist to die in a crash this year, Garda figures show. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcyclist has died following a crash in Co Leitrim. The man, aged in his 30s, suffered serious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,41038,61,60,25524,43],"class_list":["post-520839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-beaumont-hospital","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leitrim","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520839","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=520839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}