A man in his 90s has died following a car crash in Co Laois today.<\/p>\n
Emergency services responded to reports of the incident on the R433, Tullyroe, Abbeyleix, Co Laois, at around 10am.<\/p>\n
The car, driven by the man in his 90s, left the road and struck a second, parked car.<\/p>\n
The second car was unoccupied at the time and no other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
The elderly man was taken to Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
The coroner has been notified.<\/p>\n
The road was closed for a technical examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators and has since reopened.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are appealing to road users – who may have camera footage and were travelling on the R433 near Tullyroe, Abbeyleix, Co Laois, this morning, between 9.30am and 10.15am – to make it available to them.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact Abbeyleix Garda Station on (057) 873 0580, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 90s has died following a car crash in Co Laois today. Emergency services responded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-521724","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\/521724","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=521724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}