Police praise community in Telford who helped boy after he was injured after falling off bike
Police have thanked kind Telford residents including an off-duty nurse who came to the aid of a young male after he fell off his bike.
An ambulance was called to the junction of Holyhead Road and Watling Street in Arleston at 2.33pm on Sunday and one male patient was treated for injuries with injuries not believed to be serious before being taken to hospital.
Police officers say they were given a blanket to help keep the male warm after the accident in Dawley Road, and an off-duty nurse helped to keep him calm and reassured.
A spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service said: "We were called to reports of a patient who had fallen from his bicycle at the junction of Holyhead Road and Watling Street at 2.33pm yesterday. One ambulance attended the scene.
"On arrival we discovered one male patient who was treated for injuries not believed to be serious before being taken to New Cross Hospital."
PCSO Lynn Harris, of the Arleston & College policing team, said: "Arleston & College Safer Neighbourhood Team would like to say a big thank you to residents of Bluebell Manor who assisted officers whereby a young male had come off his bike on Dawley Road on Sunday.
"We were given a blanket to keep him warm and an off-duty nurse helped keep him calm and reassured.
"We were then helped further in getting the bike in the car to keep safe at the police station."
