Flying car wheel hits boy on head (North Ryde)
Rapid response trauma team rushes to critically injured boy
A freak accident left a 10-year-old boy with critical head injuries after he was struck by a wheel which came off a car at North Ryde in Sydney’s north-west this afternoon.
Just eight minutes after the alert an NRMA CareFlight specialist doctor started treating the boy when the rapid response trauma team landed in an adjacent school yard..
Emergency services rushed to Lane Cove Road when alerted to the accident at 3.40 pm.
Witnesses told the NRMA CareFlight doctor that a rear wheel came off a small sedan, flew through the air and bounced off a gutter before it hit the boy on the head.
The impact rendered the boy unconscious.
The NRMA CareFlight doctor worked with ambulance paramedics to stabilise the boy and placed him on a ventilator to control his breathing.
The doctor continued to treat the boy as he was taken, in a road ambulance, to the Westmead Children’s Hospital where he remained in a critical condition on arrival.
The crew doctor continued to assist staff at the hospital in treating the boy.
For further information please call NRMA CareFlight director Ian Badham on 0418 245 748.
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