{"id":231222,"date":"2025-07-02T05:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T05:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/231222\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T05:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T05:47:15","slug":"newtownards-man-34-dies-following-scrambler-crash-in-co-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/231222\/","title":{"rendered":"Newtownards: Man (34) dies following scrambler crash in Co Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) stock image. Picture: Aodhan Roberts\/Belfast Telegraph<\/p>\n

A 34-year-old man has died following a single vehicle crash involving a scrambler in Newtownards. <\/p>\n

The deceased has been named as Peter Kelly who was from the area. <\/p>\n

Emergency services attended the scene on Comber Road on Monday evening and the road was cordoned off. <\/p>\n

However, Mr Kelly succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) stock image. Picture: Aodhan Roberts\/Belfast Telegraph<\/p>\n

News Catchup – July 1st 2025<\/p>\n

PSNI Inspector Cherith Adair, from the PSNI\u2019s Collision Investigation Unit, said officers responded to a report made at around 7.25pm. <\/p>\n

“The rider of the scrambler sadly died as a result of injuries sustained,\u201d they confirmed. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Comber Road, which was closed for a number of hours, has since reopened to traffic.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnquiries are continuing, and anyone who witnessed the collision or who may have dashcam or other footage which could assist with our investigation, is asked to contact Collision Investigation Unit detectives via 101, quoting reference number 1558 of 30\/06\/25.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) stock image. Picture: Aodhan Roberts\/Belfast Telegraph A 34-year-old man has died following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[23196,1384,1144,1610,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-231222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-brett-campbell","9":"tag-down-news","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114782067248364006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}