{"id":580457,"date":"2026-08-02T15:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/580457\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:34:08","slug":"emergency-services-at-crash-scene-on-carlow-kilkenny-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/580457\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency services at crash scene on Carlow \/ Kilkenny road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE (12:40pm, Sunday, 2nd Aug) The motorcyclist has been airlifted to hospital in Dublin with injuries understood to be serious, but not life threatening and the road remains closed pending a technical examination of the scene<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE (11:40am, Sunday, 2nd Aug) KCLR News understands that no life-threatening injuries have been sustained by those involved<\/p>\n<p>Earlier story;<\/p>\n<p>A section of the main Carlow Kilkenny Road has been closed following a crash.<\/p>\n<p>Two vehicles, a car and motorbike, are understood to have been involved in the incident at Leighlinbridge, close to the graveyard.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists travelling from Carlow are asked to turn off at Arboretum Home &amp; Garden Heaven with the suggestion for those from Kilkenny being the first turn off into Leighlin.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE (12:40pm, Sunday, 2nd Aug) The motorcyclist has been airlifted to hospital in Dublin with injuries understood to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16665,9272,61,60,12969,244967,43],"class_list":["post-580457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-carlow","tag-crash","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny","tag-leighlinbridge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580457","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=580457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}