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Teenage pupil seriously hurt after bus incident outside Peterborough school
RTA between a bus and child on Park Road near Queens drive
A YOUNG girl was seriously injured when she was hit by a bus outside a school yesterday.
The girl, thought to be about 12-years-old, was left in a critical condition after suffering a head injury when she was hit by the bus in Park Road, outside the Thomas Deacon Academy at about 4.30pm.
The air ambulance was scrambled along with paramedics from the East of England Ambulance Service and she was treated at the scene for about 30 minutes.
The helicopter had to return to base because it was dark and the injured girl was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, which specialises in treating head injuries, in a land ambulance with a police escort clearing traffic.
Witnesses described the shock of the incident with bystanders seen weeping and comforting each other after the crash.
Eyewitness Brian Nicholls, from Anchor Court, in Paston, was on the number 2 bus at the time of the crash.
He said: “I was sitting on the bus and we were going along like normal and then there was a noise.
“I wasn’t sure what it was but then people were saying someone had been hit.
“I didn’t see who was hit but it didn’t sound good. They hit the bus at the front corner, where the entrance is.
“Then we pulled to one side and I stayed on the bus when the police came.”
Following the accident, police closed off the road and threw up a cordon around the scene as paramedics and a doctor from the air ambulance treated the girl.
They were in the road for about half-an-hour so the girl could be stabilized before being taken to hospital.
A spokeswoman for the ambulance service said the girl had been in a critical condition at the scene.
About a handful of children could not get home because police had closed the road off.
Parents praised the actions of teachers who were said to have remained with the children and comforted them through the horror.
A spokeswoman for the ambulance service said: “She suffered a head injury, was unconscious and was in a critical condition.
“She was stabilised and anaesthetised and then taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital.”
Investigating officers were combing the scene for clues late into the night yesterday.
Anyone with information about the accident should call Cambridgeshire police’s non-emergency number 101.
Earlier in the day another child was hit by a car, also outside a Peterborough school.
A nine-year-old boy was hit by a car in Central Avenue, close to Dogsthorpe Infants School and also suffered a head injury but paramedics said it was minor.
He was taken to the Walk-in Centre, off Thorpe Road, where he was treated for a bleeding head.
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