{"id":541003,"date":"2025-11-01T01:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/541003\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T01:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:22:20","slug":"schoolboy-10-partially-impaled-on-garden-railings-as-police-close-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/541003\/","title":{"rendered":"Schoolboy, 10, ‘partially impaled’ on garden railings as police close road"},"content":{"rendered":"

The boy has been taken to hospital\"PolicePolice on Wadeson Road, Walton(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n

A 10-year-old boy has been taken to hospital after becoming “partially impaled” on metal railings in Walton <\/a>this afternoon. Emergency services, including police, paramedics and firefighters, were called to Wadeson Road<\/a> at around 3.25pm on Friday, October 31 following reports a child had been injured in an accident involving his bicycle.<\/p>\n

When the ECHO<\/a> arrived at the scene, a cordon was in place at the junction of Wadeson Road and Frampton Road. According to residents, the boy was riding around a corner when he appeared to lose control of his bike<\/a> and fell onto a garden fence.<\/p>\n

One neighbour told the ECHO<\/a>: “I was hoovering and didn\u2019t hear anything until the police knocked on my door and asked me for my camera footage. There was police everywhere, around seven cars. It was scary.<\/p>\n

“The boy was shouting \u2018it\u2019s my stomach, my stomach,\u2019 and a neighbour came out to help him and phoned for an ambulance.”<\/p>\n

Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service confirmed crews were called at 3.22pm and arrived on scene within five minutes, sending two fire engines and a search and rescue team.<\/p>\n

\"GardenGarden railings on Wadeson Road(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n

A spokesperson said: “Fire crews have been called to assist North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) and Merseyside Police at an incident in Wadeson Road in Walton<\/a>, Liverpool this afternoon. Crews were alerted at 3.22pm and on scene at 3.27pm, with two fire engines and the search and rescue team in attendance.<\/p>\n

“Crews arrived to find a casualty had become partially impaled on a garden railing. Crews liaised with NWAS paramedics on scene to establish the best way forward to remove the conscious and breathing casualty from the railing.<\/p>\n

While the casualty was administered pain relief by a paramedic, the casualty was released from the railings and into the care of paramedics for onward transport to hospital. Crews left the scene at 3.38pm.”<\/p>\n

Merseyside Police confirmed officers attended the scene to assist emergency services.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson said: “We can confirm emergency services attended an accident in Walton this afternoon, Friday, October 31.<\/p>\n

“At around 3.25pm North West Ambulance Service reported that a 10-year-old boy was involved in an accident while riding a pedal bike on Wadeson Road. Nobody else was involved.<\/p>\n

“The boy was taken to hospital where he is being treated for non-life threatening injuries.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The boy has been taken to hospitalPolice on Wadeson Road, Walton(Image: Liverpool Echo) A 10-year-old boy has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,274,14723,16,15,9597],"class_list":{"0":"post-541003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-merseyside-police","13":"tag-north-west-ambulance-service","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-walton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115471827104228880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541003","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=541003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}