A woman has died after exiting a garda patrol car and being struck by a passing vehicle in Mallow, Co Cork, on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n
The woman had been reported to garda\u00ed as being in distress earlier in the day.<\/p>\n
It is understood she was single and in her late 30s or early 40s.<\/p>\n
At about 5.20pm, garda\u00ed received a call about a woman in distress in Mallow town. They responded and brought her to her family home in an effort to assist her.<\/p>\n
However, she got out of the patrol car and was tragically hit by a passing vehicle.<\/p>\n
The scene outside Mallow town has been sealed off for a forensic investigation, and the incident has been referred to Fiosr\u00fa, the Office of the Police Ombudsman.<\/p>\n
The referral was made by a Garda superintendent under Section 203(1) of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024.<\/p>\n
This section states that any matter involving Garda personnel which results in death or serious harm must be referred without delay to the Garda Ombudsman.<\/p>\n
“The referral was made following a fatal road incident during a garda interaction in the County Cork Division,” a Fiosr\u00fa spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
An investigator from Fiosr\u00fa attended the scene.<\/p>\n
“The team have and will continue to engage with the family concerned,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has died after exiting a garda patrol car and being struck by a passing vehicle in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[781,9,10,18,13,14,11167,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-176639","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-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-gardai","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115536872367662163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176639","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=176639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}