A man in his 40s has died in a three-car road traffic collision in Co Kilkenny.<\/p>\n
The collision occurred on the N10 at Templemartin, Co Kilkenny, shortly before 4.30pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The driver and sole occupant of one of the cars involved, a man in his 50s, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
A man and woman travelling in the second car were taken to\u00a0St. Luke\u2019s Hospital, Kilkenny.<\/p>\n
Their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, garda\u00ed said.<\/p>\n
The occupants of the third vehicle did not require immediate hospital treatment.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended the scene, and the local coroner has been notified.<\/p>\n
A full forensic collision investigation will be carried out by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators.<\/p>\n
The N10 is currently closed in both directions from the junction at Exit 8 of the M9 to the Hebron Road roundabout.<\/p>\n
Local diversions will remain in place overnight.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed have appealed for anyone who was travelling on the N10 at Templemartin around the time of the collision to contact them.<\/p>\n
Road users with camera footage, including dash cam, from that section of road during the relevant period have also been asked to make it available to investigating officers.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information has been asked to contact Kilkenny Garda Station on 056 777 5000, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 40s has died in a three-car road traffic collision in Co Kilkenny. The collision…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-74783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","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\/74783","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=74783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}