{"id":626276,"date":"2026-08-08T00:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/626276\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:56:11","slug":"motorcyclist-60s-dies-in-donegal-crash-while-moped-rider-hospitalised-after-cork-hit-and-run-the-irish-times-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/626276\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist (60s) dies in Donegal crash while moped rider hospitalised after Cork hit-and-run \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A motorcyclist in his 60s was killed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\/\">a crash with a car<\/a> in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donegal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donegal\">Donegal<\/a> shortly before rush-hour on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The crash took place on the N56 at Termon at approximately 4.30pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The motorcyclist received treatment but was pronounced dead at the scene. His body was taken to the mortuary at Letterkenny University Hospital and a postmortem is set to take place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The driver of the car, a woman in her 30s, was brought to Letterkenny University Hospital with non-serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The N56 was closed on Friday evening for a forensic examination by <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<\/a> technical staff with local diversions put in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Witnesses to the incident, those who may have relevant dashcam footage, and drivers who were on the N56 between the Lagoon Restaurant &amp; Guesthouse and Creeslough in the hour surrounding the crash have been asked to contact garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Separately, the Garda has issued an appeal after a \u201cserious\u201d hit-and-run in Blackpool, Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork\">Cork<\/a>, which has resulted in a moped rider being hospitalised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A grey Skoda estate car left the scene of the collision near the Thomas David Bridge junction on the North City Link Road at about 5.30pm on Friday, garda\u00ed said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The moped rider was brought to Cork University Hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The force is seeking witnesses or video footage from vehicles near the scene at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The death of the motorcyclist in Donegal brings the number of deaths on Irish roads so far this year to 112.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">That represents 12 per cent more deaths than on August 7th, 2025, when 99 people had died in road crashes at that point last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A total of 16 motorcyclists have been killed in crashes this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcyclist in his 60s was killed in a crash with a car in Co Donegal shortly before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,1877,25099,6368,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,11697,7,8],"class_list":["post-626276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-cork","tag-cork-university-hospital","tag-donegal","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-road-safety","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117057171445586270","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626276","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=626276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}