{"id":214744,"date":"2025-12-04T09:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/214744\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T09:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:11:10","slug":"man-loses-life-in-cork-crash-as-gardai-appeal-for-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/214744\/","title":{"rendered":"Man loses life in Cork crash as Gardai appeal for witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another fatality on our roads<\/p>\n<p>08:05, 04 Dec 2025Updated 08:16, 04 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2_Screenshot-2025-03-10-at-085204.png\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Long lines of traffic now Eastbound from the Sarsfield Road r\/a<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"corklive\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">A man lost his life in a single car accident in Cork City yesterday &#8211; adding another tragedy to the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corkbeo.ie\/all-about\/gardai\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"serious tollLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">serious toll<\/a> on our roads across 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"corklive\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corkbeo.ie\/all-about\/gardai\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"GardaiLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gardai<\/a> are this morning appealing for witnesses following a fatal single vehicle road traffic incident that occurred at the busy Sarsfield Roundabout, Wilton, Cork City, yesterday, Wednesday 3rd December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"corklive\">The incident, involving a car, occurred at approximately 1.50pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"corklive\">The driver, a man aged in his 50\u2019s, was conveyed to Cork University Hospital, where he was later pronounced deceased. A post-mortem examination will take place in due course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"corklive\">The scene was preserved for technical examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators. Gardai say the road has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"corklive\">Any road users who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) and were travelling in the area between 1:00pm and 2:00pm on Wednesday 3rd December 2025, are asked to make this footage available to investigating Garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"corklive\">Anyone with information is asked to contact Togher Garda Station on (021) 4947120, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another fatality on our roads 08:05, 04 Dec 2025Updated 08:16, 04 Dec 2025 Long lines of traffic now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,11167,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-214744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-gardai","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115660527375541096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214744","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=214744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}