{"id":3707,"date":"2009-02-12T12:57:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T12:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/02\/12\/five-year-old-critical-after-accident\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:32:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:32:47","slug":"five-year-old-critical-after-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/12\/five-year-old-critical-after-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Five year old critical after accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Police appeal for information<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"203\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"232\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/MohammedAkbar_232x180.jpg\"\/>A FIVE-year-old boy is in a serious condition in hospital after he was hit by a truck outside his school in Lancashire. <\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mohammed Akbar was crossing Union Road in Oswaldtwistle yesterday when he was hit by a Ford Transit flatbed tipper.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The accident happened outside St Paul\u2019s Primary School, where Mohammed is a pupil, and he was taken to Royal Blackburn Hospital.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>However, his condition deteriorated and he was transferred to Pendlebury Children\u2019s Hospital overnight.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He has suffered a broken leg, fractured skull and has bleeding on the brain.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Doctors have described his condition as \u2018critical\u2019.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Police are now appealing for information and in particular want to speak to the driver of a grey Isuzu pickup truck which was travelling past St Paul\u2019s Primary School.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Sergeant Pete Sculpher, who is leading that investigation, said: \u201cI am really keen to speak to the driver of the grey Isuzu pickup as I believe they could be a crucial witness in this investigation.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI would like to make it clear that I do not believe they were involved in the collision in any way, but they may well have witnessed the events leading up to it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI would also continue to appeal to anybody else who may have witnessed the collision to contact police immediately.\u201d\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Anyone with any information should contact police on 01254 51212 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police appeal for information A FIVE-year-old boy is in a serious condition in hospital after he was hit by a truck outside his school in Lancashire. &#13; Mohammed Akbar was crossing Union Road in Oswaldtwistle yesterday when he was hit by a Ford Transit flatbed tipper.\u00a0 &#13; The accident happened outside St Paul\u2019s Primary School, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}