A MAN IN his 30s has died after he was struck by a van in Co Kilkenny this morning.<\/p>\n
The fatal collision happened\u00a0on the R693 near\u00a0Arigan Bridge, Cooleshal, Freshford, Co Kilkenny at around 9.30am.<\/p>\n
The collision involved a van and a pedestrian.<\/p>\n
The pedestrian, a man in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
His body has been taken to University Hospital Waterford, where a port-mortem examination will take place.<\/p>\n
The road was closed for a time but has since been reopened.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the collision to come forward.<\/p>\n
Any road users who were travelling from Freshford towards Kilkenny between 9am and 9.30am and who may have camera footage, including dash-cam, are asked to make this footage available.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact Kilkenny garda station on 056 777 5000, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any garda station.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MAN IN his 30s has died after he was struck by a van in Co Kilkenny this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[238029,9271,238030,21725,173707,61,60,12969,43],"class_list":["post-563202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-arigan-bridge","tag-collision","tag-cooleshal","tag-fatal-collision","tag-freshford","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563202","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=563202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}