{"id":258940,"date":"2025-12-31T00:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/258940\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T00:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:23:07","slug":"man-40s-dies-after-being-hit-by-car-in-kildare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/258940\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (40s) dies after being hit by car in Kildare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong>male pedestrian<\/strong> in his 40s has <strong>died<\/strong> after a <strong>collision<\/strong> with a <strong>car<\/strong> in <strong>Kildare Town<\/strong> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed and emergency services are currently attending the scene of the fatal road traffic collision, which occurred on the R445 in Co Kildare, at approximately 6pm.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian, a man aged in his 40s, was pronounced deceased and his body remains at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>No other injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>The road is currently closed between Monastervin and Kildare Town with local diversions in place.<\/p>\n<p>A technical examination will be conducted by Forensic Collision Investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this collision to contact them.<\/p>\n<p>Any road users, who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) and were travelling in the area between 5pm and 6:30pm on Tuesday evening are asked to make this footage available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Kildare Garda Station on 045 527730, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A male pedestrian in his 40s has died after a collision with a car in Kildare Town on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258941,"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-258940","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\/115811333208178041","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258940","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=258940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}