Man fractures skull in 1am accident (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Man fractures skull in 1am accident
9:40am Monday 17th March 2008 in
POLICE are investigating after a pedestrian was knocked down by a taxi on Bolton Road, Darwen, early on Saturday morning.
Police said that the male pedestrian, who has not been named, was under the influence of alcohol and stepped out into the road at just after 1am.
The taxi was unable to avoid the man who suffered a fractured skull, resulting in a small bleed on the brain.
He was taken to the Royal Blackburn Hospital but his condition was not known.
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NO-GO: Bolton Road, Darwen, is sealed off after the pedestrian was hit by a taxi around 1am on Saturday. The casualty was said by police to have been under the influence of drink
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