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Ten injured in weekend traffic accidents
Monday, 22 December 2008
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Ten people needed hospital treatment, and three men were arrested, following two separate traffic accidents at the weekend.
Five people were injured in a three-car collision in County Londonderry in the early hours of yesterday.
It happened at the junction of the Clooney and Ballygudden Roads near the entrance to City of Derry airport, Eglinton, shortly after midnight. A 40-year-old man was arrested by police for questioning following the incident.
A short time later, five people were taken to hospital after a collision between a stolen car and a taxi near Lisburn.
The incident occurred around 2.30am at the Belfast Road, Lambeg south. Two men were arrested by police as a result of the accident.
The first was arrested on suspicion of three counts of dangerous driving causing grievous bodily injury, taking and driving away, driving while disqualified and no insurance. His alleged accomplice was arrested for allowing himself to be carried.
One of the men in the stolen car suffered suspected head and spinal injuries.
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Armagh Boy please keep your sectarian remarks to yourself. This article is about the present scourge on society - deaths and injuries on the roads. You demean the experience of those who have lost loved ones on the roads or those who have been injured by your childish and totally petty, irrelevant remarks.
The level of road traffic collisions should come as no surprise when you see the speed at which a lot of drivers go at. Even on the recent icy mornings they were like lemmings. Going at the same speed as if the roads were dry and clear. When these selfish, arrogant and deluded drivers come adrift they normally take innocent drivers with them. I work in the emergency services and I see a lot of the time they get of with little or no injuries while the other road users involved are killed or injured.
Posted by lumina | 22.12.08, 15:54 GMT
Its not Londonderry...
Its Derry...
Posted by Armagh Bhoy | 22.12.08, 09:54 GMT