Girl, 11, fights for life after being ‘struck by wheel that flew off Land Rover as she walked to school’
An 11-year-old girl on her way to school is fighting for her life after being struck by a car tyre that had come lose from a passing white Land Rover Discovery
A SCHOOLGIRL is fighting for her life after being hit by a Land Rover wheel after it came lose, flew through the air and hit her on the back.
The 11-year-old was reportedly walking along a footpath in Manby, Lincolnshire, on her way to school when she was struck from behind by the front wheel of a white Land Rover Discovery.
The accident is believed to have happened just after 8am as the youngster walked to a bus stop for a lift to school.
A shopper at the Co-op store in Manby Middlegate told the : "We are all in shock. It's a terrible thing to happen in our lovely village."
The girl was taken to the Queen’s Medical Centre, in Nottingham, by the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance.
Lincolnshire Police closed off the road, while they investigated the incident.
An East Midlands Ambulance Service spokesperson said: "We received a call at 8.05am to an incident on Manby Middlegate.
"The caller reported a road traffic collision involving one patient and one vehicle.
"We sent a paramedic responder, a paramedic on a Fast Response Vehicle, an ambulance and the Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire Air Ambulance.
"One patient was taken to Queens Medical Centre.”
A spokeswoman for Lincolnshire Air Ambulance said: "Our crew was dispatched to a collision in Louth at 8.14am.
"Our crew arrived on scene in just 11 minutes – a journey that by land would have taken nearly an hour.
"Our crew were required to treat and airlift one patient – a female child, to Queen’s Medical Centre Nottingham. They arrived back at base at 12.15pm."
A spokesperson for Lincolnshire Police confirmed the schoolgirl is in a critical condition and said an investigation has begun to establish the causes of the collision.
Officers urged anyone with information or who witnessed the incident to contact them on 101 quoting log number 52 of Tuesday, March 6.
A police statement added: "An 11 year old girl, who was the pedestrian, has been seriously injured and has been taken to QMC by the Air Ambulance."
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