Touching tributes to young crash victim and pleas for end to carnage on killer road

Q Radio News

There have been calls for an end to the carnage on the south Down road that claimed the life of a young boy on Saturday night.

The eight-year-old from Lurgan - named locally as Callum Morrow - was killed in a two-car crash outside Banbridge on the main road to Castlewellan. 

His father and brother and the female driver of the other car remain in hospital being treated for serious injuries.

A local farmer arrived at the scene within minutes.

He's told Q Radio it's the latest in a long line of tragedies and action has to be taken...

He says there were harrowing scenes when the boy's mother arrived in the area and found he had tragically passed away...

Just two weeks ago a motorcyclist died a short distance away on the same stretch of road.

Ulster Unionist councillor for the area, Glenn Barr, says he's already asked the authorities for help...

How many more deaths? After a second fatality in two weeks on a killer stretch of road outside Banbridge - this time the tragic death of a young boy - @abcb_council @uuponline @CllrGlennBarr calls for immediate action. More on air at 7. pic.twitter.com/GnKTFXsWtF

— Q Radio News (@qnewsdesk) July 23, 2018

Upper Bann Assembly member Dolores Kelly knows the family...

No words are needed or come easy at this time.....this picture of Callum simply speaks volumes!
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.#heartbroken pic.twitter.com/PYrLlnfQq7

— Lurgan Celtic (@LurganCeltic) July 22, 2018

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