{"id":650492,"date":"2026-10-10T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/650492\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:00:09","slug":"cyclist-killed-following-collision-with-a-van-in-co-clare-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/650492\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist killed following collision with a van in Co Clare \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A cyclist has died following a collision with a van in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/clare\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/clare\/\">Co Clare<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> have appealing for witnesses following a fatal two-vehicle road traffic crash  on the N67 at Baunmore, Kilrush, that occurred at about 8pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The  incident involved a van and a bicycle. The male cyclist was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">His body was taken to the mortuary at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/university-hospital-limerick\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/university-hospital-limerick\/\">University Hospital Limerick<\/a> where a postmortem examination will take place in due course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The coroner has been notified. The driver of the van, a man aged in his 30s, was uninjured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The road remains closed with local diversions in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone who may have been travelling in the area of Baunmore, Kilrush, Co Clare, on Friday between 7.15pm and 8.15pm, and who may have camera footage or mobile phone recordings, are asked to make this footage available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cyclist has died following a collision with a van in Co Clare on Friday. Garda\u00ed have appealing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15469,1346,61,60,43,17229],"class_list":["post-650492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-clare","tag-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-university-hospital-limerick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650492","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=650492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}