{"id":663413,"date":"2026-08-30T09:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/663413\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T09:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:11:11","slug":"man-dies-after-being-struck-by-his-van-in-co-sligo-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/663413\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after being struck by his van in Co Sligo \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man in his 40s has been killed after being hit by his van in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sligo\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sligo\/\">Sligo<\/a>. <\/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> said they were investigating the collision on Saturday which \u201cinvolved a van and a pedestrian, the owner of the vehicle\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident occurred at about 3.55pm near Luke\u2019s Bridge in Gortnaleck, Grange, Co Sligo, on a road with a steep incline. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The vehicle owner was pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">His body was taken to the local mortuary, where a postmortem examination will take place. The coroner has been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The road was closed for a technical examination by Garda specialists but later reopened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed have sought witnesses to the incident and have asked road users who were in the area between 3.30pm and 4pm, and particularly anyone with camera footage, to make contact. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with information can contact Sligo Garda station on (071) 915 7000, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 40s has been killed after being hit by his van in Co Sligo. Garda\u00ed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7011,7,8],"class_list":["post-663413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","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-sligo","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117183688577388180","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663413","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=663413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}