{"id":454892,"date":"2026-04-26T15:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/454892\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:55:12","slug":"teenage-motorcyclist-dies-in-co-donegal-crash-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/454892\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage motorcyclist dies in Co Donegal crash \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A teenage motorcyclist died in a collision with a car in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donegal\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donegal\/\">Donegal<\/a> on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The fatal incident took place on the R252 road at Cloghan at 4.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The motorcyclist, a male in his teens, was pronounced deceased at the scene. His body was taken to Letterkenny Hospital. No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The road was closed for technical examination by forensic collision investigators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> are appealing to anyone who witnessed the incident to come forward, including road users with camera or dashcam footage who were in the area between 4pm and 5pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with information is asked to contact Ballyshannon Garda Station on 071 985 8530, the Garda confidential line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage motorcyclist died in a collision with a car in Co Donegal on Saturday afternoon. The fatal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[200280,9,10,69477,200281,40527,6057,18,13,14,143030,3428,6,19,18929,17,71,11,12,15,16,5,790,92391,7,8,1543,1545],"class_list":["post-454892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-armed-conflict","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-ceasefire","tag-confilict","tag-conflicts","tag-diplomacy","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-general-view","tag-government","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-israel","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-talks","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-usa","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116471825995153617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454892","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=454892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}