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Teenage boy knocked over outside school, taken to hospital with 'serious' injuries

A boy was rushed to hospital after being hit by a car outside a primary school in Wombourne this morning.

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Emergency services were called to an accident outside a Wombourne school

The teenager was left with "serious but non-life threatening" injuries following the accident on Ounsdale Road, near Westfield Community Primary School today around 8.30am.

Medics treated the youngster at the scene before taking him to Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley for further assessment.

A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesperson said: "We were called at 8.37am to a collision involving a car and a pedestrian on Ounsdale Road.

"Upon arrival we found a teenage boy with serious injuries that were not life-threatening."

The road was blocked in both directions, between Greenlands and Windmill Bank, for several hours.