{"id":521900,"date":"2026-06-27T23:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T23:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521900\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T23:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T23:39:11","slug":"man-90s-dies-in-road-collision-in-co-laois-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521900\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (90s) dies in road collision in Co Laois \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man in his 90s has died following a road crash in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/laois\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/laois\/\">Laois<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident occurred at 10.05am on Saturday  on the R433 in Tullyroe in Abbeyleix, when a moving car struck a parked car. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The driver of the first car, aged in his 90s, was taken to hospital in Portlaoise where he was later pronounced dead, garda\u00ed said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The second car was unoccupied at the time. No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the incident to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Road users who may have camera footage (including dash cam) and were travelling in the area between 9.30am and 10.15am, are asked to make this footage available to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with information is asked to contact Abbeyleix Garda station on 057-8730580, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800-666111, or any Garda station. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 90s has died following a road crash in Co Laois. The incident occurred at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,8285,43,14233],"class_list":["post-521900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-laois","tag-news","tag-portlaoise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521900","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=521900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}