{"id":266982,"date":"2026-01-04T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266982\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:10:09","slug":"three-men-killed-in-crashes-in-kerry-longford-and-antrim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266982\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men killed in crashes in Kerry, Longford and Antrim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three men have been killed in separate road crashes in counties Kerry, Longford and Antrim this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 30s died after the car he was driving struck a tree in Headford, Co Kerry, yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended the scene of the single vehicle crash, which happened on the L3013 at Knockdooragh, Headford, at around 11.20pm last night.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the car was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The road was closed for examination by forensic collision investigators with local diversions in place.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the crash to contact them.<\/p>\n<p>Any road users with camera footage (including dashcam), who were travelling in the area between 11pm and 11.30pm, are asked to make this available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Macroom Garda Station on 026 20590, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/regional\/2026\/0103\/1551362-fatal-collision-longford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">man in his 30s died following a three-vehicle collision on the N4 near Edgeworthstown in Co Longford yesterday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The collision, which involved two cars and a van, happened on the Longford town side of the N4 after the Edgeworthstown Roundabout at around 7pm.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of one of the cars, a man in his 30s, died in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>In Co Antrim, a man in his 80s was also killed in a single-vehicle crash in Bushmills at 2.35pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was taken to hospital after the crash in the Carnbore Road area, but he later died.<\/p>\n<p>Police are appealing for witnesses to contact the Collision Investigation Unit on 101, quoting reference number 779.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men have been killed in separate road crashes in counties Kerry, Longford and Antrim this weekend. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266983,"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-266982","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\/115837706281305092","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266982","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=266982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}