Ten die in holiday road accidents
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Your support makes all the difference.TEN people were killed in car accidents across the country over the holiday weekend including a 31-year-old man who died after a hit-and-run accident in Somerset, writes Kathy Marks.
Police said that a car failed to stop after hitting Michael Sandford as he walked along the A39 near Dunster, Somerset, on Saturday night.
Also on Saturday night, two people died and three were seriously injured in a collision between three cars near Knutsford, Cheshire; in Norfolk, two people were killed and three seriously injured when a car swerved out of control in Gorleston and hit a tree; Jamie Scott-Forrest, 27, from London, died after his car swerved off the road and crashed into a tree in Weybridge, Surrey, and in Dorset, Frank Tournier, 72, was killed while crossing the A35 near Dorchester.
John Phipps, 26, and Joanne Johnson, 29, of Southend, Essex, were killed yesterday when their MG Metro crossed into the opposite carriageway of the Western Esplanade at Westcliff-on-Sea, near Southend, and collided with a Toyota estate. A 33-year-old man was killed and a woman, 26, was in a critical condition after they were run over by a car on a pedestrian crossing in Leeds early yesterday.
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