16/01/2008
Road Toll Rises
An elderly person who was knocked down and injured in a road accident in east Belfast at the weekend has died.
The victim was named as 73-year-old Frederick Shields from Cotswold Drive in Bangor. The accident happened on the Belmont Road on Sunday night.
Police have appealed for anyone who witnessed either accident to contact them.
Meanwhile, a pensioner has died in a road accident that happened at Loughview Gardens in Coalisland at around 8.30pm on Tuesday night.
The 71-year-old victim's name has not yet been released.
These are two of several road-based incidents this week, with a bizarre case of a man being rescued from burning car by a police officer.
A man is being treated in hospital after being rescued from a burning car in Bangor on Monday night.
The police were called to Ballyree Drive in the Bloomfield Estate just before 11pm.
It is understood detectives are investigating the possibility that the man may have deliberately set the car alight while he was inside it.
A police spokesman would not confirm this, but did say that a crime is not suspected.
(BMcC)
The victim was named as 73-year-old Frederick Shields from Cotswold Drive in Bangor. The accident happened on the Belmont Road on Sunday night.
Police have appealed for anyone who witnessed either accident to contact them.
Meanwhile, a pensioner has died in a road accident that happened at Loughview Gardens in Coalisland at around 8.30pm on Tuesday night.
The 71-year-old victim's name has not yet been released.
These are two of several road-based incidents this week, with a bizarre case of a man being rescued from burning car by a police officer.
A man is being treated in hospital after being rescued from a burning car in Bangor on Monday night.
The police were called to Ballyree Drive in the Bloomfield Estate just before 11pm.
It is understood detectives are investigating the possibility that the man may have deliberately set the car alight while he was inside it.
A police spokesman would not confirm this, but did say that a crime is not suspected.
(BMcC)
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