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29/10/2007
Roads Claim Two More Lives
The death toll on Northern Ireland’s roads continues to rise with two more fatalities at the weekend.
A man and a woman were fatally injured in separate road accidents in County Londonderry and County Down.
A young man was killed in a crash on the main Belfast to Londonderry road and a female pedestrian died after a collision with a motorcycle near Newcastle.
In the first accident, several people were also hurt after two cars crashed on the Glenshane Pass on Sunday afternoon.
The man who died was 18-year-old Rory Duncan from Rasharkin.
Two of the injured are understood to be in a serious condition in hospital.
In County Down, an elderly woman was involved in a collision with a motorcycle near the Murlough nature reserve at about 1300 GMT on Sunday. She was taken to hospital, but died later.
(BMcC)
A man and a woman were fatally injured in separate road accidents in County Londonderry and County Down.
A young man was killed in a crash on the main Belfast to Londonderry road and a female pedestrian died after a collision with a motorcycle near Newcastle.
In the first accident, several people were also hurt after two cars crashed on the Glenshane Pass on Sunday afternoon.
The man who died was 18-year-old Rory Duncan from Rasharkin.
Two of the injured are understood to be in a serious condition in hospital.
In County Down, an elderly woman was involved in a collision with a motorcycle near the Murlough nature reserve at about 1300 GMT on Sunday. She was taken to hospital, but died later.
(BMcC)
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