{"id":623745,"date":"2026-09-13T20:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T20:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/623745\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T20:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T20:56:12","slug":"emergency-services-at-scene-of-serious-collision-near-castleblayney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/623745\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency services at scene of serious collision near Castleblayney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency services are currently at the scene of a two-vehicle collision on the N53 near Castleblayney.<\/p>\n<p>The Dundalk Road in the town\u00a0has been closed following the collision that is believed to occur close to Show City on the outskirts of Castleblayney.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred shortly after 3pm.<\/p>\n<p>Gardai say as this is ongoing situation, no more information is available at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The collision is being described as a serious incident and diversions are now in place and motorists are being asked to avoid the area at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services are currently at the scene of a two-vehicle collision on the N53 near Castleblayney. The Dundalk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-623745","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\/623745","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=623745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}