{"id":577328,"date":"2026-07-31T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/577328\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:18:09","slug":"woman-70s-in-critical-condition-and-man-arrested-40s-after-donegal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/577328\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman (70s) in critical condition and man arrested (40s) after Donegal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been left in a critical condition following a two-car crash in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>At around 10:00 pm, emergency services and Garda\u00ed attended the scene of the collision at Erne Roundabout, Coolcholly.<\/p>\n<p>A passenger in one of the cars, a woman in her 70s,\u00a0 is receiving treatment at Beaumont Hospital Dublin, where her condition is understood to be critical.<\/p>\n<p>Two other passengers in that car were brought by ambulance to Sligo University Hospital for the treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The driver and two passengers in the second car were brought by ambulance to Sligo University Hospital for the treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 40s was arrested at the scene and subsequently released pending analysis of a sample by the Medical Bureau of Road Safety.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the collision to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Road users who were travelling in the area of the Erne roundabout between 9:45 pm and 10:00 pm on July 25th and who may have camera footage (including dash-cam), are asked to make this footage available to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Ballyshannon Garda Station on 071 985 8530, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been left in a critical condition following a two-car crash in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal, on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-577328","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\/577328","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=577328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}