{"id":162823,"date":"2025-11-04T18:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/162823\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:54:07","slug":"national-man-killed-in-county-derry-hit-and-run-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/162823\/","title":{"rendered":"National: Man killed in County Derry hit-and-run named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A man who was killed in a suspected hit-and-run collision in County Derry at the weekend has been named.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>69-year-old Patrick Flanagan was killed in the incident which occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning in Dungiven.<\/p>\n<p>The Derry man was found severely injured in the Foreglen Road area at 1:35am.<\/p>\n<p>He was rushed to hospital by members of the ambulance service, but sadly he later passed away from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe at this time that Patrick was struck by a vehicle that failed to remain at the scene of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>They are appealing to anyone that was in the Foreglen Road area of Dungiven between 1am and 2am on Sunday night to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Police can confirm that the man who died after being seriously injured in\u00a0Dungiven,\u00a0in the early hours of Sunday, November 2, was 69 year old Patrick Flanagan from the Derry area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are continuing to investigate the circumstances of this incident and we believe at this time that Patrick was struck by a vehicle in a hit and run road traffic collision,\u201d Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to hear from anyone who was in the area between 1am and 2am on Sunday morning and witnessed the collision, or captured dash-cam or other footage from the area, which could assist with our investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you can help, please call detectives in Coleraine on 101, quoting reference 123 02\/11\/25, or submit information online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psni.police.uk\/makeareport\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.psni.police.uk\/makeareport\/<\/a>. You can also contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at <a href=\"http:\/\/crimestoppers-uk.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/crimestoppers-uk.org\/<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>National: Man killed in County Derry hit-and-run named was last modified:  November 4th, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was killed in a suspected hit-and-run collision in County Derry at the weekend has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-162823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115492950186656003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162823","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=162823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}