A MAN IN his 40s has died in a road collision this morning.<\/p>\n
The man was on a motorcycle and collided with a car around 9.30am.<\/p>\n
The incident took place on the R448 at Ballyknockan, Leighlinbridge, Co Carlow this morning.<\/p>\n
The motorcyclist, a man in his 40s, was brought by air ambulance to the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin where he was subsequently pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n
The coroner has been notified.<\/p>\n
The road was closed for examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators and has since reopened.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have been travelling on the R448 at Ballyknockan, Leighlinbridge between 8.45am and 9.45am on 2 August.<\/p>\n
Road users who may have camera footage (including dash cam or mobile phone recordings) are asked to make this footage available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact Carlow Garda Station on 059 913 6620, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MAN IN his 40s has died in a road collision this morning. The man was on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[245035,16666,42,244967,23231,43,245036,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-580643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ballyknockan","tag-co-carlow","tag-headlines","tag-leighlinbridge","tag-motorcycle","tag-news","tag-r448","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580643","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=580643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}