Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses following a fatal road traffic collision in South East Clare.<\/p>\n
The single-vehicle collision happened in Cratloe this morning.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were alerted shortly after 7 o\u2019clock this morning after a car collided with a wall on the R462 at Ballymorris.<\/p>\n
The male driver, a man in his 40s, was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n
The Coroner has been notified and the man\u2019s body has been removed to University Hospital Limerick for a post-mortem examination.<\/p>\n
National Ambulance Service paramedics and units of Clare County Fire and Rescue Service from Shannon station responded to the scene along with Garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
The road is currently closed pending examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators and local diversions are in place.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have been travelling on the R462 in Ballymorris, Cratloe between 6:30am and 7:10am this morning to come forward.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re particularly interested in speaking to road users who may have camera, mobile phone or dash cam footage.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact Shannon Garda Station on (061) 365900, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses following a fatal road traffic collision in South East Clare. The single-vehicle collision…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-573873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573873","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=573873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}