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Press Association
Published:
23:17 GMT, 10 Nov 2014
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Updated:
23:17 GMT, 10 Nov 2014
Police are questioning either a lorry was concerned in a propagandize train pile-up that left some-more than 20 people, especially schoolchildren, injured.
Up to 53 children of around 14 years of age were travelling in a train when it overturned down an dike on Holme Lacy Road in Hereford shortly after 8.20am.
Witnesses reported that a lorry was concerned in a collision though did not stop.
More than 20 people, mostly schoolchildren, were taken to sanatorium after a train they were travelling in overturned in Hereford (Picture: West Midlands Ambulance Service)
A mouthpiece for West Mercia Police said: “The military review into a resources of a motoring collision continues and a impasse of another car is now being investigated.”
The force pronounced that 21 children were taken to sanatorium from a stage and a serve 5 attended after to accept diagnosis for cuts and bruises.
The womanlike motorist is suspicion to be receiving diagnosis in complete caring for chest and abdominal injuries.
Most of a children are pupils during St Mary’s Roman Catholic High School, with an additional 4 study during circuitously Bishop of Hereford’s Bluecoat School.
A mouthpiece for PW Jones Coaches, that operates a bus, pronounced : “A manager that was carrying schoolchildren went off a highway and a children are observant that a lorry was concerned and didn’t stop.
“The manager had pulled over to stop on a weed verge and it gave way.”
Seven ambulances, a paramedic area support officer, dual comparison paramedic officers and a Midlands Air Ambulance from Strensham were sent to a scene.
A alloy for a Mercia Accident Rescue Service was also sent though diverted to a sanatorium to support with triage of casualties as they arrived during AE.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service mouthpiece said: “Crews arrived to find a train during a bottom of an dike fibbing on a left-hand side.
“All of a passengers on house had managed to get out of a train before a crew’s arrival.
“However, a lady pushing was trapped for a duration of time.
“With a assistance of a glow service, a lady was extricated and treated for chest and abdominal injuries.
“She was immobilised regulating a neck collar and spinal house before being conveyed to Hereford County Hospital.”
A second train was taken to a stage to assistance ride around 20 uninjured pupils behind to their propagandize with a comparison paramedic officer.
Sara Catlow-Hawkins, headteacher during Bluecoat School, pronounced that both schools concerned had dispatched staff to a stage to assistance their pupils.
“All of them were jarred and some had suffered cuts and bruises,” she said.
“The students behaved and worked with any other in a tremendously understanding way, a dual schools worked good together and a puncture services were superb.
“Both schools would like to contend that a prayers go out to a motorist and her family.”
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