{"id":644566,"date":"2026-10-04T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/644566\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:20:09","slug":"motorcyclist-50s-dies-following-co-meath-crash-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/644566\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist (50s) dies following Co Meath crash \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A motorcyclist in his 50s has died following a crash in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\/\">Meath<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident, which involved a motorcycle and a car, occurred on the R156 at Harlockstown, Co Meath, at 12.15pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene. His body was subsequently removed to Navan Mortuary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The driver of the car, a woman in her 70s, was uninjured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The scene was examined by Garda forensic collision investigators and an incident room has been established at Ashbourne Garda Station. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A senior investigating officer has been appointed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who witnessed the collision, particularly anyone in the area between 12.00pm and 12.30pm on Saturday, or anyone with dashcam footage, to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcyclist in his 50s has died following a crash in Co Meath on Saturday. The incident, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,15949,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-644566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-headlines","tag-meath","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644566","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=644566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}