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20/11/2002
Woman killed and man seriously injured in car crash
UPDATE: A 30-year-old woman was killed and a man severely injured in a car crash on the Newtownards to Dundonald road on Wednesday morning.
The dead woman was later named on Thursday as Alison Karen McGimpsey, aged 30, from Milisle Road in Donaghadee.
The man's condition was described as "serious". It is understood that he is on a life-support machine.
The accident occurred at around 8.30am on Wednesday, November 20. Three ambulances attended the scene, taking the man and the woman to hospital.
The two vehicles involved in the accident, a Toyota MR2 driven by the woman and a mini driven by the man, collided at the Kempstones Road.
The accident closed a stretch of the citybound Newtownards to Dundonald dual carriageway for most of the day on Wednesday.
(SP)
The dead woman was later named on Thursday as Alison Karen McGimpsey, aged 30, from Milisle Road in Donaghadee.
The man's condition was described as "serious". It is understood that he is on a life-support machine.
The accident occurred at around 8.30am on Wednesday, November 20. Three ambulances attended the scene, taking the man and the woman to hospital.
The two vehicles involved in the accident, a Toyota MR2 driven by the woman and a mini driven by the man, collided at the Kempstones Road.
The accident closed a stretch of the citybound Newtownards to Dundonald dual carriageway for most of the day on Wednesday.
(SP)
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