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21/02/2005
Funeral takes place of mini-motorbike victim
The funeral has taken place of the four-year-old child killed on a mini-scrambler motorbike in Belfast last week.
David Spence was sitting on the front of the bike with an adult when it was in collision with a car at the junction of Berlin Street and Riga Street in the Shankill Road area on Thursday.
David, who has a twin sister Chelsea, was buried following a funeral service at his home on Monday morning.
Meanwhile, police have named the man who died in a motorbike accident in Co Antrim at the weekend as 20-year-old Dathan Nathaniel Tweed, of Railway View, Macfin.
Mr Tweed died when his motorbike was in a collision with a car on MacFin Road on Sunday.
The driver and passenger in the car were not injured.
(MB)
David Spence was sitting on the front of the bike with an adult when it was in collision with a car at the junction of Berlin Street and Riga Street in the Shankill Road area on Thursday.
David, who has a twin sister Chelsea, was buried following a funeral service at his home on Monday morning.
Meanwhile, police have named the man who died in a motorbike accident in Co Antrim at the weekend as 20-year-old Dathan Nathaniel Tweed, of Railway View, Macfin.
Mr Tweed died when his motorbike was in a collision with a car on MacFin Road on Sunday.
The driver and passenger in the car were not injured.
(MB)
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