A man has died after suffering “serious head injuries” in a “workplace accident” at a funfair in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, police have said.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to the Spanish City Summer Funfair after reports that a man, in his 20s, had been injured at 2.15pm on Saturday, police said.<\/p>\n
The North East Ambulance Service said it had dispatched a rapid response paramedic, a clinical team leader, an emergency ambulance crew and the air ambulance to the scene, and added that an “off-duty medic was also present to support the patient whilst the ambulance was travelling”.<\/p>\n
The man was treated at the scene but was declared dead a short time later.<\/p>\n
His family are being supported by specialist officers.<\/p>\n
The funfair, which was set to run throughout the bank holiday weekend, has been shut and the Health and Safety Executive has been informed.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: A Northumbria Police spokesman said: “Our thoughts are with the man’s family at this extremely difficult time.<\/p>\n “We have contacted the Health and Safety Executive and are working with them to establish exactly what happened.<\/p>\n “The fair has been closed to the public and will remain closed until further notice.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died after suffering “serious head injuries” in a “workplace accident” at a funfair in Whitley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-369049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115082161344636159","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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