15/02/2018

Appeal Issued Over Hit-And-Run Collision In Dungannon

Police are appealing for information after a woman was left badly injured in a hit-and-run collision in Dungannon.

The incident happened in the Quarry Lane area close to a police station on Thursday, 08 February.

Police are trying to identify a man driving a red car who stopped to help the woman, but then left the scene.

The victim sustained a cracked vertebrae, leg injuries and severe bruising.

Posting on the PSNI Dungannon and South Tyrone Facebook page police said that the elderly woman had been crossing at the top of Quarry Lane towards the South Tyrone Hospital when a vehicle "collided with her in the middle of the road".

(CD)




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