{"id":68417,"date":"2025-09-16T22:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/68417\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T22:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:14:07","slug":"woman-80s-dies-after-collision-between-suv-and-truck-in-roscommon-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/68417\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman (80s) dies after collision between SUV and truck in Roscommon \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman in her 80s who was a passenger in an SUV has died following a collision with a truck in Co Roscommon<\/a> on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed<\/a> said the woman was pronounced dead at the scene of the N5 at Scramogue. <\/p>\n

The driver of the SUV (sport utility vehicle) was a woman in her 70s. She was transferred by air ambulance to University Hospital Galway for treatment of serious injuries.<\/p>\n

The road was closed on Tuesday evening and was due to remain this way until Wednesday pending examination by forensic collision investigators. <\/p>\n

Anyone with camera footage of the area around 4.45pm and 5.15pm on Tuesday are asked to share it with detectives.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Police Service of Northern Ireland<\/a> has confirmed that a man who died following a collision in Downpatrick, Co Down<\/a>, on Monday was 21-year-old Ryan Cunningham. He was the driver of a car involved in a collision with another car on the Ballydugan Road.<\/p>\n

In a separate incident, a woman in her 70s died after a head-on collision in Dungannon, Co Tyrone<\/a>. She was Joyce Crooks (78) from Cookstown, Co Tyrone. Five people were taken to hospital with injuries following the incident .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman in her 80s who was a passenger in an SUV has died following a collision with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[956,9,10,17927,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,952,13172,7,8,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-68417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-down","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","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-police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni","24":"tag-roscommon","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories","27":"tag-tyrone"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68417","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=68417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}