{"id":620897,"date":"2026-09-11T00:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T00:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620897\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T00:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T00:30:18","slug":"roads-closed-as-air-ambulance-called-after-serious-west-donegal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620897\/","title":{"rendered":"Roads closed as air ambulance called after &#8216;serious&#8217; west Donegal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main Dungloe-Burtonport road remains closed following a serious road traffic collision.<\/p>\n<p>A collision between a vehicle and a pedestrian occurred this afternoon on the R259 near Meenmore, Dungloe.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that a person was taken to hospital in an air ambulance, which landed on the road close to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGarda\u00ed and emergency services are at the scene of a serious road traffic collision on the R259 near Meenmore, Dungloe, Co. Donegal this evening Thursday 10th September 2026,\u201d a Garda spokesperson told Donegal Daily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe road is currently closed. Local diversions are in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson added that there was no further information available at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The main Dungloe-Burtonport road remains closed following a serious road traffic collision. A collision between a vehicle and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-620897","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\/620897","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=620897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}