{"id":537892,"date":"2026-07-07T18:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/537892\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T18:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:30:10","slug":"man-airlifted-to-hospital-after-e-scooter-accident-in-graiguecullen-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/537892\/","title":{"rendered":"Man airlifted to hospital after e-scooter accident in Graiguecullen &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed have confirmed that earlier today, 7 July, an adult male was airlifted to hospital after a single person e-scooter accident in Graiguecullen in Carlow town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The accident occurred shortly after 11.30am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A man in his 20s has been taken to a Dublin hospital to be treated for his injuries. The air ambulance landed on the grounds of St Patrick&#8217;s Boy&#8217;s Athletic Football Club close by.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The accident happened on the Castlecomer Road, between Chaff Street and Mount Clare Court. A partial road closure remains in place as Garda\u00ed investigate the incident. There are Garda\u00ed on site directing traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This accident occurs just over a week after 17-year-old Janis Ghirghircic Ozols tragically died after falling off an e-scooter on Carpenters Way in Carlow town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have confirmed that earlier today, 7 July, an adult male was airlifted to hospital after a single&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-537892","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\/537892","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=537892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}