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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
George Lithgow

Retired dentist hit by car and carried for a mile ‘deserved better end’ – family

Thomas Wallace was struck by a grey Mercedes estate on the A289 Gads Hill in Gillingham, Kent, just after 12pm on Monday (Kent Police/PA) - (PA Media)

Tributes have been paid to a retired dental surgeon who died when he was hit by a car and carried on top of it for a mile.

The man, who can now be named as 89-year-old great grandfather Tom Wallace, “deserved a better end to his life than this”, his family said.

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