{"id":71053,"date":"2025-05-03T11:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T11:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/71053\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T11:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T11:46:09","slug":"child-9-rushed-to-hospital-after-being-hit-by-car-on-birmingham-street-full-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/71053\/","title":{"rendered":"Child, 9, rushed to hospital after being hit by car on Birmingham street &#8211; full statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Midlands Police responded to reports of a child being hit by a car and disorder taking place on Caldwell Road<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_Caldwell-rd-GVJPG.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>A general view of Caldwell Road in Birmingham<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A nine-year-old child was rushed to hospital after a crash on a busy residential street in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Disorder also broke out on Caldwell Road, close to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/bordesley-green-and-small-heath\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Bordesley Green<\/a>, just after 7pm on Thursday May 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/west-midlands-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> rushed to the scene, attending to reports of a child being &#8220;hit by a car&#8221; and disorder taking place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/police-warning-thousands-birmingham-cars-31564460\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Police warning as thousands of Birmingham cars scanned in DVLA operation<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get breaking news on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/FJKVhwxllixI0DiCj9e2sk\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object] Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">BirminghamLive WhatsApp <\/a>, click the link to join<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A 20-year-old man was also taken to hospital to be checked over after allegedly being assaulted in the disorder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Caldwell Road sits between Bordesley Green and Alum Rock and is a key residential route, with a number of crescents coming off it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Local residents had reported a significant police presence on the route on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Pictures shared on social media showed a large number of police officers on the road, which was sealed off. The route has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A West Midlands Police spokesperson told BirminghamLive: &#8220;We were called to Caldwell Road at around 7.05pm Thursday 1 May to reports that a child had been hit by a car and a disorder was taking place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;A nine-year-old child was taken to hospital to be checked over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;A 20-year-old man was also taken to hospital to be checked over after being assaulted during the disorder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Enquiries are ongoing and anyone with information is asked to get in touch via Live Chat on our website or by calling 101 quoting log 4905 of 2 May.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police responded to reports of a child being hit by a car and disorder taking place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,10586,748,393,4884,16,15,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-71053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-bordesley-green-and-small-heath","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114443739787336160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71053","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=71053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}