Boy, nine, knocked out after pool-side fall (From Gazette)
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Boy, nine, knocked out after pool-side fall
1:05pm Tuesday 12th February 2013 in News
Colchester Leisure World
A BOY aged nine was rushed to hospital after knocking himself out at Colchester’s Leisure World.
Paramedics were called to the centre in Cowdray Avenue after the boy slipped while running by the leisure pool.
He hit his head and knocked himself out on Sunday at 4.15pm.
He regained consiousness and was treated at the scene and then taken to Colchester General Hospital.
Gary Sanderson, spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service, said: “We dispatched a response car, an ambulance a doctor to the scene.
“Thankfully on our arrival the boy was conscious and talking and was being cared for by members of staff who did extremely well to look after him.”
He was discharged at 8pm
Comments(4)
ribble
says...
4:36pm Tue 12 Feb 13
stadium medic wrote:Yes not slip floor that will do it, how about some cotton wool instead of the dangerous water, kids fall, accidents happen that's life!
I'm glad to hear the young lad was discharged later that day. I often take my kids there and constantly telling them not to run. Maybe they need to get a non slip flooring placed to help. My son did fall over once and did hit his head but luckily nothing worse than tears.
If people do not like the dangers out there stay at home and let the normal thrill seekers live our life's :)
Boris
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12:44am Wed 13 Feb 13
We are all glad the boy wasn't badly hurt,.but really it is too trivial.
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Actually, the Gazette could just send a couple of reporters to sit in A & E all day collecting stories from the patients, and fill the paper that way.
O rly?
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1:32pm Wed 13 Feb 13
stadium medic says...
3:33pm Tue 12 Feb 13