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A car driver was arrested after crashing into a cyclist and driving the wrong way on the A55 in Holyhead. The vehicle, which had been reported stolen, was stopped by police between Rhosneigr and Rhostrehwva after the collision. The cyclist was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver, Darragh O'Grady, was charged with multiple driving offenses including causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Darragh O’Grady allegedly drove car in wrong direction on A55 near Holyhead following a collision with a cyclist The car was stopped while travelling the wrong way down the A55 on Monday evening after a collision with a cyclist.
Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty ImagesNorth Wales Police said the car, which had been reported stolen from Holyhead, Anglesey, was stopped while travelling the wrong way down the A55 on Monday evening after a collision with a cyclist. Darragh O’Grady , of no fixed abode but from Ireland, was charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving, dangerous driving, aggravated taking of a vehicle and other driving offences, the force said on Thursday.
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A police spokesman said: “At the current time, there is no evidence to indicate that the incidents on Monday evening were filmed for the purposes of uploading to social media.
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