A man aged in his 30s has suffered a \u201clife-changing limb injury\u201d in a crash in Co Down.<\/p>\n
The incident took place at Castlebawn Retail Park in Newtownards at around 1:20pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Police said the man was reported to have been struck by a blue Skoda Octavia and appealed for information.<\/p>\n
\u201cOfficers attended the scene of a collision at Castlebawn Retail Park at around 1:20pm, after a pedestrian was reported to have been struck by a blue Skoda Octavia,\u201d said local policing Sergeant Young.<\/p>\n
\u201cA white Vauxhall Astra parked nearby also sustained damage.<\/p>\n
\u201cColleagues from the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service and Air Ambulance attended and the pedestrian, a man aged in his 30s, was taken to hospital for treatment to a life-changing limb injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cInquiries are ongoing and we would appeal to anyone who may have witnessed the collision, particularly those who may have dash-cam or other footage, to contact police on 101, quoting reference 764 of 23\/05\/26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man aged in his 30s has suffered a \u201clife-changing limb injury\u201d in a crash in Co Down.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-464875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}