{"id":369431,"date":"2026-01-14T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369431\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T14:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:04:08","slug":"men-died-in-head-on-crash-on-porthmadog-bypass-inquest-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369431\/","title":{"rendered":"Men died in head-on crash on Porthmadog bypass, inquest told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two men died in a head-on crash days before Christmas, an inquest has heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mathew James Hardy, 34, and Daniel Atkinson, 40, both mechanics, crashed into each other on the A487 Porthmadog bypass on 20 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Senior coroner for North West Wales Kate Roberston said Hardy, from Abererch, Pwllheli, was driving north in an Iszu recovery truck towards Tremadog, and Atkinson, from Blaenau Ffestiniog, was heading south in a VW Golf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both men died at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roberston told the inquest: &#8220;It appears an oncoming vehicle collided with him [Hardy].&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men died in a head-on crash days before Christmas, an inquest has heard. Mathew James Hardy, 34,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-369431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}