A MAN IN his 70s has died after being struck by a car in Kilkenny.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended the scene of the collision, which involved a car and the pedestrian, on the R691 at Desart Demesne near Callan.<\/p>\n
It happened at around 5.30pm on Friday.<\/p>\n
The man was pronounced dead at the scene and his body has been taken to University Hospital Waterford.<\/p>\n
The occupants of the car did not require hospital treatment.<\/p>\n
The road is currently closed for examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators and traffic and local diversions remain in place.<\/p>\n
The local coroner has been notified, and a post-mortem will be arranged.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are asking anyone who may have witnessed the collision to come forward.<\/p>\n
Any road users who were travelling in the area at the time who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) are asked to make this footage available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact Kilkenny Garda Station on 056 777 5000, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any garda station.<\/p>\n
Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MAN IN his 70s has died after being struck by a car in Kilkenny. Garda\u00ed and emergency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[132216,21725,7782,61,60,12969,43,2733,114326],"class_list":["post-671041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-callan","tag-fatal-collision","tag-gardai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny","tag-news","tag-october","tag-pedestrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671041","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=671041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}