{"id":661566,"date":"2026-10-22T01:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661566\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T01:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:22:09","slug":"pedestrian-dies-in-cork-mallow-road-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661566\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies in Cork-Mallow road crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A pedestrian in his 20s died after being struck by a car on the N20 Mallow to Cork road this evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The crash happened at Burnfort at approximately 5.45pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The victim died at the scene and his body was taken to the mortuary in Cork University Hospital where a postmortem will take place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The driver and sole occupant of the car, a man in his 20s was taken to Cork University Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The road was closed overnight and a technical examination by Forensic Collision Investigators will take place tomorrow morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed appealed to anyone who was travelling in the area of the N20 at Burnfort between 5:15pm and 5:45pm, especially those who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) to make it available to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Anyone with any information is asked to contact Mallow Garda Station on 022 31450, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian in his 20s died after being struck by a car on the N20 Mallow to Cork&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-661566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661566","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=661566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}