{"id":546922,"date":"2026-07-13T05:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/546922\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T05:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:46:17","slug":"psni-confirms-death-of-west-belfast-motorcyclist-following-crash-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/546922\/","title":{"rendered":"PSNI confirms death of west Belfast motorcyclist following crash \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 20-year-old man has died following a two vehicle crash in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/west-belfast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/west-belfast\/\">west Belfast<\/a> last week, police have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a statement issued on Sunday afternoon, the PSNI said a motorcyclist \u201chas sadly died following a two-vehicle collision in west Belfast on Sunday, 5th July\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The statement added: \u201cTJ Kennedy, who was aged 20, and from the Poleglass area, was taken to hospital for serious injuries following the collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe died as a result of his injuries yesterday evening, Saturday 11th July, while receiving treatment in hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/orange-order-grand-secretary-mervyn-gibson-no-difficulty-with-controversial-bands-taking-part-in-parades-EBAJ3FPWYRETZPIWWA3QXODSR4\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Orange Order Grand Secretary Mervyn Gibson: &#x2018;No difficulty&#x2019; with controversial bands taking part in parades\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783921576_38_76ZAEROBNNDHPFUUS5A3GDCYH4.JPG\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/jeffrey-donaldson-barrister-says-complainants-not-sufficiently-reliable-enough-for-jury-to-find-him-guilty-NPVDDQKBG5H7JELU5FSOYVQUME\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jeffrey Donaldson barrister says complainants not &#x2018;sufficiently reliable enough&#x2019; for jury to find him guilty\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LAYJIX7LORKIZDFXRSQMNHDIC4.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detective Inspector Stewart, from the Collision Investigation Unit, said: \u201cWe are continuing to investigate the circumstances of what happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAt approximately 6pm on Sunday, 5th July police received a report of a collision involving a blue Volkswagen Touran and silver Yamaha Tracer in the Shaws Road area, at its junction with Greenan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOfficers along with colleagues from the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service attended the scene \u2013 and Mr Kennedy was taken onward to hospital. No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe urge anyone who may have witnessed the collision or anyone with CCTV or other footage that could assist with enquiries to contact police on 101 quoting reference 1279 05\/07\/26 or by using our witness appeal form at <a href=\"https:\/\/reporting.psni.police.uk\/appeals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/reporting.psni.police.uk\/appeals\">https:\/\/reporting.psni.police.uk\/appeals<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The police said people can also submit a report online using their non-emergency reporting form at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psni.police.uk\/report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.psni.police.uk\/report\">www.psni.police.uk\/makeareport<\/a> or you can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers-uk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers-uk.org\/\">http:\/\/crimestoppers-uk.org\/ <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 20-year-old man has died following a two vehicle crash in west Belfast last week, police have confirmed.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,7288,40,38,41,39,103152],"class_list":["post-546922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-psni","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-west-belfast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546922","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=546922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}