{"id":157805,"date":"2025-11-01T22:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T22:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/157805\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T22:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T22:43:08","slug":"man-in-30s-dies-after-being-hit-by-bus-in-co-kildare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/157805\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in 30s dies after being hit by bus in Co Kildare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 30s has died after being hit by a bus in Co Kildare.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred between junction 8 and junction 7 eastbound on the N7 motorway at Kill.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian, a man aged in his 30s, was seriously injured and taken to Tallaght University Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He passed away this evening.<\/p>\n<p>A post-mortem examination will take place in due course.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the bus, a man aged in his 30s, was uninjured, while two passengers received non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The N7 motorway between junction 8 and junction 7 eastbound is currently closed pending a technical examination of the scene by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators.<\/p>\n<p>The road will remain closed overnight, with diversions in place.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing for any witnesses to this collision to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are also appealing for any road users who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) who were travelling in the area at the time of the collision to make this footage available to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information is asked to contact Naas Garda Station on (045) 884 300, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n<p>It brings to three the number of pedestrians killed on Irish roads since last night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/ireland\/2025\/1101\/1541595-loughgeorge-galway-rtc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A man in his 80s died after he was struck by a car on the N83 in Co Galway last night.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/regional\/2025\/1101\/1541679-carlow-death\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">While a pedestrian aged in his 40s died after being struck by a car in Co Carlow.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 30s has died after being hit by a bus in Co Kildare. The crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-157805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115476863875305679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157805","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=157805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}