POLICE have issued a witness appeal after a collision on the A358 resulted in a 13-year-old boy being airlifted to hospital.
Officers said a teenage boy came off a stand-on-e-scooter near to B&Q on the A358 Furnham Road in Chard just before 5.30pm on Tuesday, September 16.
Emergency services were called, and he was airlifted to hospital where he remains for treatment, Avon and Somerset Police confirmed on Wednesday, September 17.
A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: “We were called at 17.20hrs on Tuesday 16 September to a medical incident in Chard.
“We sent one double-crewed ambulance, an air ambulance, and an operations officer to the scene.
“We conveyed one patient to Hospital.”
His family are aware of the incident and police have said that his injuries not life-threatening.
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A police spokesperson said: “The boy came off a stand-on e-scooter and was airlifted to hospital where he remains for treatment.
“Thankfully his injuries are described as neither life-threatening nor life-changing.
“Officers would like to thank members of the public who stopped to help at the scene.”
The A358 was closed for collision investigation between its junctions with Furnham Close and Victoria Avenue and reopened at around 11pm.
If you have any information which could help the police to establish what happened, please call 101 and give the reference 5225261287.
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