Four killed in NI crashes
Four people, including a teenager and an eight-year-old girl, were killed in a string of separate accidents on Northern Ireland’s roads today, police said.
The first incident happened at around 12.45am when a 14-year-old girl was knocked down while walking along Finaghy Road South in Belfast.
A man was arrested in connection with her death.
The girl was later named by police as Adele Whiteside, from the Finaghy area, who was a student at Dunmurry High School.
At around 10.45am, Adam Armstrong, 78, was killed in a two-vehicle crash at Kesh, Co Fermanagh.
His wife was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
Police in Enniskillen are appealing for witnesses.
An eight-year-old girl was killed and three other people injured this afternoon in what police described as a very serious crash near Coleraine, Co Derry.
The girl’s mother remains in a serious but stable condition in hospital.
A 20-year-old woman and a two-year-old toddler are also being treated, but their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening, police said.
A 60-year-old man died tonight after a crash between a car and a motorbike at Ballymoney, on the main Belfast to Coleraine Road.
