{"id":566787,"date":"2026-07-25T00:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T00:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/566787\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T00:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T00:19:09","slug":"one-person-dies-following-cavan-road-traffic-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/566787\/","title":{"rendered":"One person dies following Cavan road traffic collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person has died following a two-vehicle collision in Shercock, Co Cavan this evening.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood a child was also seriously injured and was airlifted to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened on the R162 near Lough Silan and Corclare in Shercock.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended the scene, including units from the Fire Service from Kingscourt and Bailieborough and the national ambulance service.<\/p>\n<p>The road will remain closed overnight and an examination of the scene by forensic collision investigators is expected to be carried out tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Local diversions are in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has died following a two-vehicle collision in Shercock, Co Cavan this evening. It is understood a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-566787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566787","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=566787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}