{"id":581283,"date":"2026-08-03T05:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/581283\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T05:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:33:17","slug":"motorcyclist-40s-dies-after-co-carlow-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/581283\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist, 40s, dies after Co Carlow collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A motorcyclist in his 40s has died after a collision in Leighlinbridge, Co Carlow this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The incident involving a motorcycle and a car happened at around 9.30am on the R448 at Ballyknockan.<\/p>\n<p>The man was airlifted to the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin, where he was subsequently pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner has been notified.<\/p>\n<p>The road was closed for forensic examination but has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed have appealed to anyone who was travelling in the area around the time of the incident to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>They are particularly interested in hearing from anyone with camera footage, including dash cam or mobile phone recordings.<\/p>\n<p>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 motorcyclist in his 40s has died after a collision in Leighlinbridge, Co Carlow this morning. The incident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-581283","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\/581283","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=581283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}