{"id":26546,"date":"2025-08-27T13:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/26546\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:17:08","slug":"man-dies-in-co-offaly-collision-involving-crane-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/26546\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in Co Offaly collision involving crane \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man has died following a collision involving a crane and two vans near Edenderry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/offaly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/offaly\">Co Offaly<\/a>, this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is understood the crane was being transported from one site to another at the time of the incident on the R401 in Drumcooly at about 6.15am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The driver of one of the vans, a male in his 40s, was pronounced dead at the scene, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">garda\u00ed<\/a> said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The driver of the other van, who is in his 30s, was brought to Midland Regional Hospital in Tullamore for treatment of injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Garda spokesman said the road is closed while forensic collision investigators conduct their work. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/health-and-safety-authority\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/health-and-safety-authority\">Health and Safety Authority<\/a> has been notified and will conduct a separate investigation, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses to contact them. Anyone with camera footage travelling in the area between 6am and 6.30am is asked to share this with officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died following a collision involving a crane and two vans near Edenderry, Co Offaly, this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,18,13,14,6,16037,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,3171,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-26546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-health-and-safety-authority","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-offaly","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26546","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=26546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}