{"id":553329,"date":"2026-07-16T21:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/553329\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T21:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:03:11","slug":"r173-closed-due-to-serious-traffic-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/553329\/","title":{"rendered":"R173 closed due to serious traffic collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lmfm.ie\/news\/lmfm-news\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All LMFM News<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/686b6913b8786.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Garda\u00ed and emergency services are at the scene in County Louth\n        <\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed and emergency services are currently at the scene of a serious road traffic collision on the R173 near Ballaverty, Riverstown, Co. Louth.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened this afternoon &#8211; multiple vehicles were involved and a number of people are believed to have suffered serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed to have happened outside St. Andrew&#8217;s Church.<\/p>\n<p>The road is currently closed and Garda\u00ed say local diversions are in place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=62f5d1bc-976b-45a1-a0cb-ee4acf856ae1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mmo.aiircdn.com\/301\/68da98f645855.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All LMFM News Garda\u00ed and emergency services are at the scene in County Louth Garda\u00ed and emergency services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4263,4262,61,60,3323,4259,4258,4265,4266,4264,4260,4261,43],"class_list":["post-553329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-drogheda-radio","tag-dundalk-radio","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-job-search","tag-lm-fm","tag-lmfm","tag-lmfm-breakfast-show","tag-lmfm-late-lunch","tag-lmfm-podcast","tag-louth-radio","tag-meath-radio","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553329","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=553329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}