Horrified onlookers LIFT car to free seriously injured child dragged underneath vehicle in Salford
manchestereveningnews.co.ukHorrified onlookers lifted a car off a young child who had been dragged underneath the vehicle in a collision in Salford. The incident sparked a huge emergency services response on Tuesday afternoon (April 26), with the road being closed off and an air ambulance landing nearby shortly before 3.30pm.
The young child, thought to be a boy, aged four, was reportedly caught underneath the vehicle at the busy junction of Liverpool Road and Worsley Road, in Eccles.
Members of the public rushed to help, with a group of men seen lifting the car up so that the child could be pulled from underneath, an eyewitness told the Manchester Evening News.
The youngster was rushed to Royal Manchester Children's Hospital by paramedics. They were said to have sustained 'serious injuries' after the collision. READ MORETeenage boys charged after reports of woman being raped in Wigan Amanda James, 45, saw the horror unfold when sat as a passenger in a car waiting in traffic at the junction.
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