{"id":554097,"date":"2026-07-17T08:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/554097\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:52:09","slug":"man-and-woman-in-70s-killed-in-two-car-crash-in-co-louth-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/554097\/","title":{"rendered":"Man and woman in 70s killed in two-car crash in Co Louth \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man and woman, both aged in their 70s, have died in a two-car collision in Co Louth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The crash took place on the R173, The Bush, Co Louth, on Thursday shortly before 3.10pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The male driver and the female passenger were both pronounced dead at the scene and their bodies were removed to Louth County Hospital for postmortems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The male driver of the second car and a woman passenger, both aged in their 30s, were seriously injured and were airlifted to Beaumont Hospital and Mater Misericordiae University Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The road has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Garda family liaison officer has been appointed to support the family of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are appealing for assistance from anyone who may have been travelling on the R173 between Dundalk and Carlingford in Co Louth between 2.30pm and 3.30pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Road users who may have camera footage, including dash cam or mobile phone recordings, are asked to make this footage available to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed can be contacted at Dundalk Garda station on (042) 938 8400, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man and woman, both aged in their 70s, have died in a two-car collision in Co Louth.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-554097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","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\/554097","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=554097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554097\/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=554097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}