Boy, five, seriously injured in Cannock
A boy aged five was seriously injured this afternoon after a collision with a car.
The youngster was left with serious head, pelvic and neck injuries in the accident on Chapel Street, Norton Canes, just before 3.45pm.
West Midlands Ambulance service spokesman Steve Parry said the youngster was airlifted to Birmingham Children's Hospital.
The collision happened in a residential area and around the time pupils and parents were making their way home from nearby Jerome Primary School.
A police cordon closed off Chapel Street between Chasewater Way and Hussey Road and diversions were put in place.
Staffordshire Police's Collision Investigation were on the scene taking photographs.
One man, who lived yards from the crash but we have agreed not to name, described the moments after the incident, he said: "I saw the air ambulance come above our heads and it landed on playing fields which people know as 'The Sem'. It's about 200 yards away and the ambulance drove the boy down to the helicopter and off it went.
"There were a group of people looking on at what happened but I'm not sure they knew what was going on. I think they realised, liked myself, it was serious when we saw the yellow paramedic jackets."
