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Woman describes trauma of being hit by car in film shoot

Six people were injured and a man arrested after a car hit a crowd of people off the Boucher Road in south Belfast
Six people were injured and a man arrested after a car hit a crowd of people off the Boucher Road in south Belfast Six people were injured and a man arrested after a car hit a crowd of people off the Boucher Road in south Belfast

A YOUNG woman injured in a crash in south Belfast when a car ploughed into a crowd of people has described her horrific ordeal.

Catriona Lilley was part of a production team filming for a television crime programme when she was knocked down.

The 22-year-old suffered a fractured jaw and lost teeth in the collision.

She was one of six people injured at a night shoot at the junction of Falcon Road and Apollo Road, off the Boucher Road on November 30.

They were filming for upcoming an RTÉ 2 series 'Young, Dumb and Dangerous', a three-part series about recent cases of murder, gun crime and aggravated burglary, which will also feature interviews and reconstructions.

A 24-year-old man was arrested but was later released on bail.

It is believed the car involved in the crash was not part of the filming for the crime reconstruction.

Ms Lilley described her shock in the immediate aftermath of the collision.

"I couldn't stop screaming," she told the BBC.

"It was just really horrifying and really traumatic seeing everything around me.

"I was just thinking 'God I hope is everyone is OK' and what on earth was that. What happened?

"It just seemed so surreal."

The young woman said she had been left shaken in the days since the crash.

"The first night that I came home I woke up in the night having flashbacks of the car just coming at me," she said.

"I started to feel really ill because I could imagine it hitting my stomach over and over again."

But she said took comfort from the "fact that everyone else is doing OK".