{"id":578937,"date":"2026-08-01T14:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/578937\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:14:09","slug":"man-80s-and-woman-70s-seriously-injured-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/578937\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 80s, and woman, 70s, seriously injured in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man and a woman are being treated in hospital for serious injuries following a road crash Co Laois where the second car left the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The man who is aged in his 80s and a passenger, a woman in her 70s, were taken to Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore.<\/p>\n<p>The collision involved two cars and occurred near Moat, Ballinakill at approximately 10:15pm.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the second car left the scene, and garda\u00ed are seeking to identify this person.<\/p>\n<p>The road is currently closed pending examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Local diversions are in place.<\/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 vicinity of the L7797 Moat, Ballinakill between 10:00pm and 11:00pm on Friday 31st July 2026 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 Abbeyleix Garda Station on (057) 873 0580, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man and a woman are being treated in hospital for serious injuries following a road crash Co&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-578937","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\/578937","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=578937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}