{"id":351550,"date":"2025-08-17T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T11:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351550\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T11:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T11:57:13","slug":"memory-walk-and-vigil-to-be-held-for-jaidyn-rice-16-following-tragic-road-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351550\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory walk and vigil to be held for Jaidyn Rice (16) following tragic road death"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 16-year-old girl<\/a> was pronounced dead at the scene following the collision on West Circular Road in Bangor on July 8. <\/p>\n

Relatives of the former Army cadet are encouraging everyone in the local community to attend the poignant event which will also remember all road traffic victims and their families.<\/p>\n

Those wishing to take part have been asked to meet at the Owenroe Drive, Clandeboye Road, in Bangor by 7.30pm on August 25. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are inviting every family across Northern Ireland who has lost a loved one to a road traffic accident to please join us in honouring your loved one,” a spokesperson for Jaidyn\u2019s family said,<\/p>\n

\u201cBring a photograph of your loved one, hold it high to show they are not a statistic, they matter!<\/p>\n

\u201cOur lives changed forever on the 8th of July, our beautiful Jaidyn was killed in a road traffic accident.<\/p>\n

\u201cHelp us honour our loved ones, let us unite and be their voice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The walk will proceed to the junction at West Circular Road where a candle will be lit and a three minute silence observed to remember road traffic victims before the procession returns back to Owenroe Drive. <\/p>\n

\"Jaidyn<\/p>\n

Jaidyn Rice<\/p>\n

The funeral of Jaidyn Rice takes places in Bangor<\/p>\n

North Down MP Alex Easton is among those due to speak at the event. <\/p>\n

A 30-year-old man has previously appeared in court charged in connection with Jaidyn\u2019s death before being released on bail. <\/p>\n

Jamie McCartney, whose address is the subject of a reporting restriction, is accused of causing death by dangerous driving, causing death whilst driving without a license and causing death whilst driving without insurance.<\/p>\n

Jaidyn\u2019s mum, Elaine Clarke, previously told the Belfast Telegraph of her grief following the devastating loss. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe was a princess. As a child she loved her wee princess dresses and tiaras, make-up and nails, she was just always really girly,\u201d she said, recalling her love of Frozen, Barbie and One Direction.\u201cShe was for starting her A-levels in September and she wanted to go into the 212 and be an officer, and her back-up was community work\/youth work or childcare,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe wanted to serve her time and then go into community work afterwards \u2014 Jaidyn just cared about other people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 16-year-old girl was pronounced dead at the scene following the collision on West Circular Road in Bangor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1384,1611,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-351550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-down-news","9":"tag-jessica-rice","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115043987954302592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351550","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=351550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}