Appeal over party crash driver

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The husband of a woman badly injured in a hit-and-run incident has released photographs of his wife in hospital to help bring the driver to justice.

She was returning from a Christmas night out with colleagues when the incident happened on Sunday morning.

Declan Gartland and Leontia Strain were hit by a car as it came round a corner at Strain Electrical, Mullaghbawn. Mr Gartland broke and arm and leg.

Mrs Strain landed on the bonnet and was carried 120 metres by the driver.

Her husband, Aidan Strain, said that the driver just kept on going.

"Nobody could find her, they didn't know where she had disappeared to and then a young couple had walked further up the road and heard her moaning," he said.

Mr Strain said that witnesses said there was a woman passenger in the car and appealed for her to identify the driver of the silver-coloured car.

"If you hit a dog on the road, an animal, you would stop. This man knew exactly what he was doing, drove out round her and away," he said.