{"id":616111,"date":"2026-09-06T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/616111\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:44:08","slug":"teenage-boy-killed-in-co-clare-hit-and-run-named-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/616111\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage boy killed in Co Clare hit-and-run named locally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenage boy who died following a hit-and-run incident in Co Clare last night has been named locally as Bryan Lowe.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 11pm, garda\u00ed and emergency found a boy, aged 16, who had been on a scrambler e-bike, unresponsive by the roadside on the L3050 at Cottage Cross near Clonlara.<\/p>\n<p>He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A second vehicle involved in the incident failed to remain at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The scene was preserved for examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A scene picture of the hit-and-run in Clonlara, in Co Clare\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0024f573-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nGarda\u00ed are asking people who may have dash-cam footage to make it available to them<\/p>\n<p>The coroner has been notified and a post-mortem examination will be arranged.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to RT\u00c9 News, Bryan Lowe&#8217;s mother, Crystal Lowe, said she and his two sisters are &#8220;devastated&#8221; and added that &#8220;Bryan will be sadly missed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who witnessed the incident to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Road users who were in the Clonlara area at the time and may have camera footage (including dash-cam) are asked to make it available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is urged to contact Henry Street Garda Station on (061) 212400, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage boy who died following a hit-and-run incident in Co Clare last night has been named locally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-616111","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\/616111","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=616111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}