{"id":637113,"date":"2026-09-26T23:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T23:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/637113\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T23:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T23:46:09","slug":"man-arrested-after-teenage-boy-dies-in-hit-and-run-near-listowel-in-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/637113\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after teenage boy dies in hit-and-run near Listowel in Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 30s has been arrested after a teenage boy died in a hit-and-run collision in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/maintopics\/kerry-news_topic-5331488.html\">Co Kerry<\/a> in the early hours of Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The male pedestrian, who was in his late teens, was pronounced dead at the scene following the collision involving a van on the N69 near Dromin Upper, Listowel, shortly after 3am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The van failed to remain at the scene following the collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/maintopics\/an-garda-s%C3%ADoch%C3%A1na_topic-5076620.html\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> subsequently located the vehicle and arrested the male driver, who is currently being detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at a Garda station in the Kerry Division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The coroner has been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The N69 between Cahirdown Roundabout in Listowel, on the Main Tarbert Road, and the townland of Derry, Listowel, remains closed to allow for an examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Local diversions are in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Garda appeal\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses who may have information about the collision to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">They are particularly appealing to anyone who was travelling on the N69 near Dromin Upper between 2.30am and 4am on Saturday and who may have camera footage of the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This includes motorists with dashcam footage or anyone with relevant recordings on a mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Anyone with information is asked to contact Listowel Garda Station on 068 50820, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 30s has been arrested after a teenage boy died in a hit-and-run collision in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[187201,45,42,43,16669,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-637113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-kerry-news","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-road-deaths","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637113","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=637113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}