{"id":586405,"date":"2026-08-07T22:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586405\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:08:07","slug":"motorcyclist-60s-killed-in-crash-in-co-donegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586405\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist, 60s, killed in crash in Co Donegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 60s has died in a collision involving a motorcycle and a car in Co Donegal.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred on the N56 at Termon at around 4.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene and his body has been removed to Letterkenny University Hospital where a post-mortem examination will take place.<\/p>\n<p>A woman in her 30s, who was the driver of the car, was taken to hospital for the treatment of non-serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The scene is currently preserved for examination and local diversions remain in place.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed have appealed to anyone who may have witnessed the collision to come forward, and have asked anyone who may have camera footage, including dash-cam, to make it available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Milford Garda Station on (074) 915 3060, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 60s has died in a collision involving a motorcycle and a car in Co&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-586405","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\/586405","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=586405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}