{"id":625871,"date":"2026-09-16T00:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T00:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/625871\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T00:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T00:38:09","slug":"man-30s-killed-and-woman-injured-after-m4-collision-in-co-meath-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/625871\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (30s) killed and woman injured after M4 collision in Co Meath \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man in his 30s has died following a two-vehicle collision in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\/\">Meath<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The collision occurred on the M4 road westbound at junction 9, near Enfield, at about 2.30pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">One of the drivers, a man in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene. His body has since been removed to the local mortuary where a post-mortem examination will take place. The coroner has been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A woman in her 30s was brought to hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The road is closed pending examination by <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<\/a> forensic collision investigators. Local diversions are in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed have appealed for witnesses to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Any road users who were travelling on the M4 near junction 9 between 2pm and 3pm on Tuesday and who may have camera footage are asked to make it available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with information is asked to contact Trim Garda Station on 046 942 6140, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 30s has died following a two-vehicle collision in Co Meath. The collision occurred on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,15949,43],"class_list":["post-625871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-meath","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625871","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=625871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}