A man has died and up to seven others are injured following a series of road traffic collisions in Northern Ireland.
In Co Derry a 77-year-old tractor driver died last night following a road collision outside Dungiven.
He was named by police as Anthony McCloskey of Magheraboy Terrace, Dungiven.
His death brings the toll on Northern Ireland’s roads so far this year to 86, well ahead of the 75 at the same point last year.
Mr McCloskey was driving a Massey Ferguson tractor involved in a collision with a VW Golf on the Glenshane Road shortly after 7pm yesterday. Both vehicles were travelling towards Dungiven from the Belfast side when they crashed.
A number of witnesses have contacted police but they asked for anyone else who saw either vehicle in the moments before the impact, or who came across the scene, to contact them.
Also in Derry a 12-year-old girl was critically injured in a separate road accident.
She was walking close to Faughan View Park in Claudy when she was struck by a green Audi A4, suffering leg, stomach and shoulder injuries.
Her condition in the Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry was described as “critical but stable”.
Police appealed for any witnesses to the accident at around 4.30pm yesterday, which was not a hit-and-run, to contact them.
In a separate accident in Co Antrim, six people were injured in a two car collision, two of them seriously.
Two men were reported to have suffered the serious injuries and two women and a boy under 10 lesser injuries in the crash on the Seven Mile Straight outside Antrim.
Police said two cars collided close to the Lonrig Road junction at around 5.30pm yesterday and appealed for witnesses.
PA