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08/07/2003
Teenage girl dies in fall from quad bike
A teenage girl from Carrickfergus has died while on holiday in Scotland after the quad bike she was riding overturned on a beach near Stranraer.
Lindsey Waller (17) from Heston Drive, Carrickfergus, was riding the quad bike along Sandhead Beach on Sunday afternoon, when the vehicle flipped over. She sustained a serious head injury and was taken by ambulance to Garrick Hospital in the town of Stranraer, before being transferred to the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow.
Doctors at the hospital tried to save her but she died on Monday morning.
A second girl, also aged 17, who had been riding pillion, escaped unhurt.
Dumfries and Galloway police are continuing their inquiries into the accident and a full report will be forwarded to the procurator fiscal.
(CL)
Lindsey Waller (17) from Heston Drive, Carrickfergus, was riding the quad bike along Sandhead Beach on Sunday afternoon, when the vehicle flipped over. She sustained a serious head injury and was taken by ambulance to Garrick Hospital in the town of Stranraer, before being transferred to the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow.
Doctors at the hospital tried to save her but she died on Monday morning.
A second girl, also aged 17, who had been riding pillion, escaped unhurt.
Dumfries and Galloway police are continuing their inquiries into the accident and a full report will be forwarded to the procurator fiscal.
(CL)
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