{"id":581092,"date":"2026-08-03T01:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/581092\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:56:09","slug":"man-20s-killed-woman-seriously-injured-in-donegal-crash-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/581092\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (20s) killed, woman seriously injured in Donegal crash \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man in his 20s was killed and a woman also in her 20s was seriously hurt following a crash in Pettigo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donegal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donegal\/\">Co Donegal<\/a>, on Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The car in which they were travelling was involved in a collision with a 4&#215;4 vehicle at around 2:45pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man was pronounced dead at the scene while his passenger was brought to hospital with serious injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The sole occupant of the 4&#215;4, a man in his 60s, was brought to hospital for assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The road was closed to allow for a forensic examination to take place with local diversions put in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> have appealed for information from witnesses or anyone travelling in the area at the time of the collision, particularly people with camera footage, including dashcam or mobile phone recordings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">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 man in his 20s was killed and a woman also in her 20s was seriously hurt following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1485,1346,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-581092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donegal","tag-garda-siochana","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581092","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=581092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}