{"id":13110,"date":"2025-08-21T04:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13110\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T04:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:30:08","slug":"road-has-re-opened-after-fatal-early-morning-collision-on-corks-m8-motorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13110\/","title":{"rendered":"Road has re-opened after fatal early morning collision on Cork&#8217;s M8 motorway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed in Cork are appealing for witnesses following a fatal single-vehicle road traffic collision on the M8 motorway this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The collision occurred are around 6.50am on the southbound stretch of the motorway at junction 18, Upper Riverstown, Glanmire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A man, aged in his 20s, who was taken by ambulance to Cork University Hospital following the incident was pronounced dead this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The road, which was closed earlier to facilitate a technical examination by garda forensic collision investigators, has since re-opened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A garda spokesperson said they are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this collision to contact them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Any road users who may have camera footage, including dash-cam, and were travelling in the area between 6.40am and 7.15am this morning is asked to make this footage available to investigating garda\u00ed,&#8221; said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Anyone with information is asked to contact Mayfield Garda Station on 021 455 8510 the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Investigations are ongoing,&#8221; said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed in Cork are appealing for witnesses following a fatal single-vehicle road traffic collision on the M8 motorway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[781,9,10,12315,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-13110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-cork-garda","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}