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<\/p>\nMan is arrested after incident in Co Antrim\n<\/p>\n
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Police attended the scene in Co Antrim last night. Stock image.<\/p>\n
There is \u201cdeep shock\u201d after a male pedestrian died after a hit and run in Co Antrim, a local councillor has said.<\/p>\n
A woman was also injured in the same incident and is in hospital.<\/p>\n
It happened in the Ballyeaston Road area of Ballyclare on Friday night.<\/p>\n
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Police attended the scene in Co Antrim last night. Stock image.<\/p>\n
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Alliance councillor Lewis Boyle, who is from Ballyclare, spoke of his shock at what happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a deeply shocking and sad event,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
“I offer my sincere condolences to the family of the deceased, and I wish the injured woman a full and speedy recovery. There is a sense of shock in the wider Ballyclare community upon hearing this tragic news.<\/p>\n
“For anyone with any information or who may have witnessed the incident, please come forward and share any information you may have with the police.”<\/p>\n
A senior PSNI officer also appealed for information.<\/p>\n
Detective Chief Inspector O\u2019Loan: \u201cShortly before 10.35pm it was reported that two pedestrians, one male and one female, were struck by a car which failed to stop at the scene.<\/p>\n
“The male, aged in his 50s, sadly died as a result of his injuries.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe female, aged in her 40s, was taken to hospital for her injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne male has been arrested in respect of the collision and remains in police custody.<\/p>\n
\u201cEnquiries are continuing and police would appeal to anyone who was on the Ballyeaston Road between 9.30pm and 10.35pm and witnessed the collision, or drivers who may have captured it on their dash cam, to get in touch by calling 101 and quoting reference number 1771 15\/08\/25.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man is arrested after incident in Co Antrim Police attended the scene in Co Antrim last night. Stock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1999,1211,1144,1610,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-349295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-adrian-rutherford","9":"tag-antrim-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\/115038809359101462","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349295","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=349295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}