A woman in her 50s has died and a child has been seriously injured following a collision between a car and a truck in Co Cavan yesterday.<\/p>\n
The collision occurred just after 5pm on the R162 at Corclare, Shercock in Co Cavan.<\/p>\n
The woman who was driving the car was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
A girl, who was a passenger in the car, has been taken to Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin where she is in a critical condition.<\/p>\n
A number of other people who were occupants of the vehicles received medical attention at the scene by ambulance staff. No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
The road is closed for an examination by garda forensic collision investigators and local diversions are in place.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are appealing to any road users who were travelling in the area between 4:45pm and 5:15pm yesterday, and who may have camera footage (including dash-cam), to make it available to them.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact Bailieborough Garda Station on 042 969 4570, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman in her 50s has died and a child has been seriously injured following a collision between…\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-567371","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\/567371","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=567371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567371\/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=567371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}