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Boy, 9, Critically Injured After Coach Fall In Norfolk

Boy Critically Injured After Falling From Coach
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File photo dated 04/04/11 of an ambulance outside the entrance to a hospital Accident and Emergency department.More than a quarter of a million patients waited for half an hour or longer in ambulances outside hospitals in the last 12 months because of the "crisis" in accident and emergency departments, according to figures obtained by Labour.
File photo dated 04/04/11 of an ambulance outside the entrance to a hospital Accident and Emergency department.More than a quarter of a million patients waited for half an hour or longer in ambulances outside hospitals in the last 12 months because of the "crisis" in accident and emergency departments, according to figures obtained by Labour.
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A nine-year-old boy has suffered "life-threatening injuries" after falling from a coach, police have said.

Officers in Norfolk said nobody else was injured in the incident, on the A47 trunk road near King's Lynn.

The incident happened at around 3.45pm on Sunday.

A police spokesman said: "The boy has been taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn with life-threatening injuries.

"A number of other people were on board the coach at the time and no other passengers were injured."

The road is expected to remain closed for some time and local diversions have been put in place.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police.

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