An off-duty garda was killed in a single-vehicle car crash in Co Clare yesterday evening.<\/p>\n
The collision happened shortly after 5.30pm yesterday on the R466 outside the village of Broadford.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended the scene, where the passenger of the car, was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
The garda, a man in his 50s, was based at a station in Limerick city.<\/p>\n
The driver, also aged in his 50s, was airlifted to University Hospital Limerick (UHL) with serious injuries.<\/p>\n
The deceased’s body was removed to the mortuary at UHL where a post-mortem examination will take place.<\/p>\n
The road remains closed this morning as Garda Forensic Collision Investigators carry out a technical examination of the scene. Local diversions are in place.<\/p>\n
Garda investigations into the circumstances of the fatal collision are ongoing.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who witnessed the collision to contact them.<\/p>\n
They would particularly like to speak to road users who were travelling on the R466 at Gortnaglogh around the time of the crash and may have camera footage, including dash-cam recordings.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact Ennis Garda Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An off-duty garda was killed in a single-vehicle car crash in Co Clare yesterday evening. The collision happened…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-570134","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\/570134","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=570134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}