{"id":581217,"date":"2026-08-03T04:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T04:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/581217\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T04:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T04:21:10","slug":"motorcyclist-40s-dies-in-hospital-following-co-carlow-crash-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/581217\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist (40s) dies in hospital following Co Carlow crash \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A motorcyclist in his 40s has died in hospital following a collision with a car in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/carlow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/carlow\/\">Co Carlow<\/a> on Sunday morning. The crash, on the R448 at Ballyknockan near Leighlinbridge, happened at 9.30am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The motorcyclist received treatment at the scene and was airlifted to Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Witnesses to the incident, those who may have relevant dashcam footage, and drivers who were on the R448 in the hour before the crash have been asked to contact garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Elsewhere, the Garda bank holiday roads policing operation continued on Sunday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> said they detected 2,540 drivers speeding in the first 24 hours of a clampdown on road offences over the August bank holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Among those caught speeding was a car driving at double the speed limit, 101 km\/h in a 50 km\/h zone, on the Dublin Road in Co Galway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Another driver was spotted driving 82 km\/h above the speed limit on the N4 near Moher in Co Leitrim. Speed detectors caught the driver at 182 km\/h, with the road carrying a speed limit of 100 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed have arrested 88 people in the past three days for driving under the influence of either alcohol or drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The arrests come as part of the Garda August bank holiday crackdown on \u201clifesaver\u201d driving offences which began on Thursday and runs until Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">As part of the operation, mandatory intoxicant-testing checkpoints and regular, high-visibility checkpoints have been spread around the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Bank holiday weekends are considered to be high-risk periods for roads offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are targeting four \u201clifesaver\u201d offences they believe cause higher road-mortality rates: speeding, driving under the influence, mobile phone use and failing to wear a seatbelt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Since Thursday, more than 270 drivers were detected holding a mobile phone or not wearing a seatbelt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The fatal collision in Co Carlow on Sunday morning was the first road-related death of the bank holiday weekend. It brings the total number of road deaths this year to 109.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">New figures from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety-authority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety-authority\/\">Road Safety Authority<\/a> show that two in five, or about 40 per cent, of all road deaths take place at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Young people, those between 16 and 25 years of age, made up more than a quarter of all road deaths this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Separately, garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses to a non-fatal crash in Castlebridge, Co Wexford which took place shortly before midnight on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Emergency services were called after a car collided with a pedestrian on the R741.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcyclist in his 40s has died in hospital following a collision with a car in Co Carlow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-581217","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\/581217","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=581217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}