VICTIMS of road traffic accidents will be remembered tomorrow at a special Bolton church service.

Some of the dozens of names of people killed or injured on the town's road will be read out at moorland Belmont Parish Church of St Peter.

Only this week the BEN highlighted Bolton's horrendous accident figures - revealing that 10 people had already died this year on the town's roads.

And police fear the road toll will double before the year 2000 ends.

The service at St Peter's Church has been organised by the vicar's wife Anne Jones, whose own father died in a road accident almost exactly a year ago.

Mrs Jones, aged 49, a mother of one, now believes passionately in the BEN's appeal for drivers to take care and slow down.

She said: "You think of all the things that could have happened to have prevented the accident.

"You think if only they had been there just a few minutes earlier or later then it wouldn't have happened. It's all the things that might have happened but didn't. Losing someone from a car accident is different from an illness where you might have time to prepare yourself. An accident is so sudden. It's like running into a brick wall.

"Hopefully the service will give people a chance to reflect and draw some comfort."

Her father Les Jacques, aged 76, went for a bottle of milk to his corner shop near his home in Blackpool but never reached his destination.

A car reversed into him and knocked him to the floor just a few hundred yards from his home on Blackpool seafront on November 3, 1999.

He died later from severe head injuries in hospital.

The man responsible pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention and was fined just £300 with eight penalty points on his driver's licence.

Mrs Jones said: "Accidents more often than not are not true accidents. They are usually caused by someone being careless or driving too fast. But the service for Road Peace is not about seeking vengeance it is to highlight the issue of road safety and make people realise they have a responsibility to other people."

Tomorrow's service, which starts at 3pm, involves prayers of remembrance for those killed or injured on roads.

It will include hymns to provide reflection and comfort and there will be moments of silence to reflect on the awful carnage on our roads.

The names of victims from Bolton will be written on oak leaves and a candle lit for each person.

One of them is Margaret Kendrick, who died in an accident in Edgworth on Christmas Eve last year.

Her family live in America but asked that her name be remembered.

The 63-year-old, of Greenbank, Harwood, was crushed to death by her runaway car.

The Road Peace service is part of a European-wide day of remembrance.

But the event at Belmont village - which lies on the notorious accident blackspot of Belmont Road - is one of just two in the North west.

Emergency services will also be represented and prayers will be offered for their part in saving lives.

Any one is invited to attend the service - for more information ring Mrs Jones or the Rev David Jones at the vicarage on 01204 811221. VICTIMS of road traffic accidents will be remembered tomorrow at a special Bolton church service.

Some of the dozens of names of people killed or injured on the town's road will be read out at moorland Belmont Parish Church of St Peter.

Only this week the BEN highlighted Bolton's horrendous accident figures - revealing that 10 people had already died this year on the town's roads.

And police fear the road toll will double before the year 2000 ends.

The service at St Peter's Church has been organised by the vicar's wife Anne Jones, whose own father died in a road accident almost exactly a year ago.

Mrs Jones, aged 49, a mother of one, now believes passionately in the BEN's appeal for drivers to take care and slow down.

She said: "You think of all the things that could have happened to have prevented the accident.

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"You think if only they had been there just a few minutes earlier or later then it wouldn't have happened. It's all the things that might have happened but didn't. Losing someone from a car accident is different from an illness where you might have time to prepare yourself. An accident is so sudden. It's like running into a brick wall.

"Hopefully the service will give people a chance to reflect and draw some comfort."

Her father Les Jacques, aged 76, went for a bottle of milk to his corner shop near his home in Blackpool but never reached his destination.

A car reversed into him and knocked him to the floor just a few hundred yards from his home on Blackpool seafront on November 3, 1999.

He died later from severe head injuries in hospital.

The man responsible pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention and was fined just £300 with eight penalty points on his driver's licence.

Mrs Jones said: "Accidents more often than not are not true accidents. They are usually caused by someone being careless or driving too fast. But the service for Road Peace is not about seeking vengeance it is to highlight the issue of road safety and make people realise they have a responsibility to other people."

Tomorrow's service, which starts at 3pm, involves prayers of remembrance for those killed or injured on roads.

It will include hymns to provide reflection and comfort and there will be moments of silence to reflect on the awful carnage on our roads.

The names of victims from Bolton will be written on oak leaves and a candle lit for each person.

One of them is Margaret Kendrick, who died in an accident in Edgworth on Christmas Eve last year.

Her family live in America but asked that her name be remembered.

The 63-year-old, of Greenbank, Harwood, was crushed to death by her runaway car.

The Road Peace service is part of a European-wide day of remembrance.

But the event at Belmont village - which lies on the notorious accident blackspot of Belmont Road - is one of just two in the North west.

Emergency services will also be represented and prayers will be offered for their part in saving lives.

Any one is invited to attend the service - for more information ring Mrs Jones or the Rev David Jones at the vicarage on 01204 811221.