A man killed in a road accident in Northern Ireland was a Scottish soldier, police confirmed today. Fusilier Stewart George Wells, of the 1st Battalion the Royal Highland Fusiliers, died in a crash near Glenavy, Co Antrim.
Fusilier Wells, who was 21, single and from Glasgow, was a passenger in a Transit van which was in collision with an articulated lorry and another van on the Moira Road at 12.15 p.m. yesterday.
He was pronounced dead at the scene, said an Army spokesman at Thiepval Barracks, Lisburn, Co Antrim.
It was believed the van was either coming from or going to Belfast International Airport near Aldergrove, five miles away, at the time. PA