{"id":547001,"date":"2026-07-13T06:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/547001\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T06:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:57:20","slug":"woman-50s-dies-after-crash-between-car-and-lorry-in-co-cork-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/547001\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman (50s) dies after crash between car and lorry in Co Cork \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> have appealed for witnesses after a woman was fatally injured in a road crash in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork\">Cork<\/a> on Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident, involving a car and a lorry, happened on the R568 at Manch East, Ballineen, between Bandon and Dunmanway, at around 3pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe female driver of the car, a woman in her 50s was pronounced dead at the scene,\u201d An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cHer body has since been removed to Cork University Hospital where a postmortem examination will take place in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The force said the man (50s) who was driving the lorry was treated at the scene for minor injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The road remained closed on Sunday evening, with local diversions in place while garda\u00ed conducted a forensic examination of the crash scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone who may have been travelling on the R568 at Manch East between 2.30pm and 3pm on Sunday is asked to contact garda\u00ed at Bandon station on (023) 885 2200, or the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111. The investigation team is also keen to speak to anyone who may have relevant camera or dashcam footage from the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The woman was the 95th person to die on the State\u2019s roads so far this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have appealed for witnesses after a woman was fatally injured in a road crash in Co Cork&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,46,61,60,43,11318],"class_list":["post-547001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-cork","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-road-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547001","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=547001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547001\/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=547001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}