{"id":630807,"date":"2026-09-20T21:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T21:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630807\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T21:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T21:04:09","slug":"three-men-killed-in-separate-road-crashes-in-wexford-limerick-and-meath-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630807\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men killed in separate road crashes in Wexford, Limerick and Meath \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Three men were killed in separate road traffic incidents on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A motorcyclist (50s) died after a collision between his bike and a van on the R736 near Wellington Bridge, Co Wexford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed and emergency services were alerted to the crash shortly before 3.15pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The driver of the van did not require immediate hospital treatment, garda\u00ed said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The road remained closed on Sunday evening to facilitate a technical examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators and local diversions were in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Earlier on Sunday, a man in his 20s was fatally injured when the car he was driving struck a tree on the N21 at Cummeen, Adare, Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\">Limerick<\/a>. The incident took place at around 2.40am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">His body was taken from the scene to the mortuary at University Hospital Limerick, where a postmortem will take place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two male passengers in the car were taken to University Hospital Limerick. One, who is in his 20s, remained in a critical condition on Sunday, while the other, an adult teenager, has non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The road remained closed on Sunday morning for a technical examination by An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, and diversions are in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Separately, a man in his 50s died after his car crashed into a premises in Athboy, Co Meath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident took place at around 2am on Sunday on Connaught Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The body of the man, who was the sole occupant of the car, has been taken to the mortuary at Our Lady\u2019s Hospital, Navan, for postmortem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In the case of each collision, garda\u00ed have appealed for any witnesses to come forward. They have also requested any motorists who might have dashcam footage from the relevant location around the time of the crash to make that footage available to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">People can contact any Garda station or the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men were killed in separate road traffic incidents on Sunday. A motorcyclist (50s) died after a collision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,1396,15949,43],"class_list":["post-630807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick","tag-meath","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630807","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=630807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}