{"id":594052,"date":"2026-08-15T12:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T12:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594052\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T12:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T12:38:08","slug":"man-in-critical-condition-after-third-vehicle-hit-him-at-scene-of-earlier-two-car-crash-in-co-meath-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594052\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in critical condition after third vehicle hit him at scene of earlier two-car crash in Co Meath \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> are seeking witnesses to a three-car crash that left a man in critical condition in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\/\">Meath<\/a> in the early hours of Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The collision took place at Smithstown, near Julianstown in the south of the county, as vehicles travelled southbound towards Dublin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The first crash took place at about 2.06am, garda\u00ed said, with a vehicle crashing into the rear of another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The cars were pulled in to the left hand side of the road, with the drivers of the vehicles, both men in their 50s, uninjured at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">About 10 minutes later, a third vehicle collided with the rear of one of the vehicles and its driver, who had been standing behind it on the road, sustained serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes hospital in Drogheda, where he remains in critical condition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The driver of the third vehicle, a man in his 40s, was uninjured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The scene, on the R132, was preserved for technical examination, with diversions in place in the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses or those with relevant footage who were travelling in the area between 1.20am and 2.20am on Saturday morning to make contact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident took place just hours after a man in his 30s died at the scene of a crash involving his motorcycle in Co Galway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The single-vehicle incident took place around 11.40pm on Friday night at Carraghy on the N83 road between Claregalway and Tuam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">His body has been removed to University Hospital Galway for a postmortem and a forensic team was examining the scene on Saturday morning, with the road closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are seeking witnesses to a three-car crash that left a man in critical condition in Co Meath&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,4500,61,60,15949,43,11318],"class_list":["post-594052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-galway","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-meath","tag-news","tag-road-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594052","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=594052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}