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A 15-year-old boy is dead after he was knocked off his bike close to Barging Centre in Liberta.<\/p>

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The teenager is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s second road fatality for 2022.<\/p>\n

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On Thursday, Jan. 20 a 29-year-old woman residing in Yorks village was recorded as the country\u2019s first road death for 2022.<\/p>

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According to police reports, she was walking from East to West on Friars Hill Road in the vicinity of Village Walk when she was struck by a car traveling in the opposite direction.<\/p>

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She was transported to the Sir Lester Bird Medical Center by the Emergency Medical Services, where she was later pronounced dead by a medical doctor.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred around 5:45 am on Thursday 20, January 2022.<\/p>

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