{"id":579771,"date":"2026-08-02T04:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/579771\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T04:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:04:24","slug":"man-80s-and-woman-70s-seriously-injured-after-hit-and-run-collision-in-co-laois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/579771\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (80s) and woman (70s) seriously injured after hit-and-run collision in Co Laois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A MAN IN his 80s and a woman in her 70s have been seriously injured following a hit-and-run collision in Co Laois.<\/p>\n<p>The serious collision happened at around 10.15pm on the L7797 near Moat, Ballinakill, Co Laois.<\/p>\n<p>A male driver in his 80s and a female passenger in her 70s were taken to Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore for treatment of serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the second car fled 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 and 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 10pm and 11pm on Friday and who may have camera footage, including dash-cam, are asked to make this footage available.<\/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 IN his 80s and a woman in her 70s have been seriously injured following a hit-and-run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[90443,97780,61,60,244483,8285,244484,43],"class_list":["post-579771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ballinakill","tag-hit-and-run","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-l7797","tag-laois","tag-moat","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579771","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=579771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}