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23/03/2009
Motorcyclist Is Latest Road Victim
One motorcyclist died and another has been injured in separate accidents yesterday, the police have said.
Sunday's most serious incident saw a motorcyclist being fatally injured when his motorcycle crashed at North Queen Street, at its junction with Seaview Street in north Belfast, at about 10.30pm.
He was later identified as Gary Mitchell, 27, from the Skegoneill area of north Belfast.
Also on Sunday, another man was left in a serious condition in hospital after his motorcycle was in collision with a car in Carryduff at about 6pm.
There was also further tragedy at the weekend when a man died after he was struck by a car in Co Antrim on Saturday evening.
Named later as Robert James Callaghan, 40, from the Dunseverick area, the victim was walking on the Causeway Road in Bushmills when the accident happened.
Meanwhile, a 12-year-old girl remains seriously ill in hospital after she was hit by a car in Co Down.
That accident happened on the Movilla Road in Newtownards shortly before 9pm on Saturday.
(BMcC/JM)
Sunday's most serious incident saw a motorcyclist being fatally injured when his motorcycle crashed at North Queen Street, at its junction with Seaview Street in north Belfast, at about 10.30pm.
He was later identified as Gary Mitchell, 27, from the Skegoneill area of north Belfast.
Also on Sunday, another man was left in a serious condition in hospital after his motorcycle was in collision with a car in Carryduff at about 6pm.
There was also further tragedy at the weekend when a man died after he was struck by a car in Co Antrim on Saturday evening.
Named later as Robert James Callaghan, 40, from the Dunseverick area, the victim was walking on the Causeway Road in Bushmills when the accident happened.
Meanwhile, a 12-year-old girl remains seriously ill in hospital after she was hit by a car in Co Down.
That accident happened on the Movilla Road in Newtownards shortly before 9pm on Saturday.
(BMcC/JM)
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