{"id":568701,"date":"2026-07-26T08:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568701\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T08:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:59:24","slug":"woman-50s-dies-child-in-critical-condition-following-cavan-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568701\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman (50s) dies, child in critical condition following Cavan crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman in her 50s has died in a crash in Co Cavan and a young girl is in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>The collision, involving a car and a truck, happened on the R162 at Corclare, Shercock just after 5pm on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the car was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A young girl, who was a passenger in the car, was rushed to Temple Street Children&#8217;s Hospital, where she remains in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed say a number of other people travelling in the car and truck received medical treatment at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The road remains closed today for a forensic examination with local diversions in place.<\/p>\n<p>Any road users who were travelling in this area between 4.45pm and 5.15pm yesterday and who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) are asked to make this footage available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>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 in a crash in Co Cavan and a young girl is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-568701","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\/568701","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=568701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}