Boy hit by lamppost dies

Published: 8:54AM GMT twenty-five February 2010

The pushchair being private from the stage in Heathfield Terrace, where a flare post situated in the center of a little highway functions fell over abrasive a lady and a kid in a pull chair Photo: REX FEATURES

The one-year-old boy, whose name has not been released, was strike by the lamppost in Chiswick, west London, on Tuesday.

A 62-year-old lady who suffered a behind damage was additionally taken to sanatorium but was discharged.

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The child was taken by air ambulance to the Royal London Hospital, in easterly London, shortly after the situation and was conspicuous passed in sanatorium at about 5.30am.

A Scotland Yard orator said: "A baby child severely harmed by a descending lamppost in Chiswick has sadly died.

"He was conspicuous passed at sanatorium at about 5.30am this morning.

"A autopsy hearing will be scheduled in due course."

The woman, who was treated with colour at Charing Cross Hospital in west London, was not associated to the baby and was not pulling his pram when the lamppost fell.

A military orator pronounced the baby was with a carer, who was not injured.

The incident, at the connection of Heathfield Terrace and Sutton Court Road, is being investigated by officers from Hounslow CID and the Specialist Crime Directorate mutually with the Health and Safety Executive.

A Hounslow legislature mouthpiece pronounced the situation was "an horrible tragedy" and the legislature was co-operating entirely with the military and Health and Safety Executive investigations.

She pronounced work was being carried out in the area as piece of the Turnham Green trade and ride alleviation scheme, that was written to yield faster journeys for train passengers.

The intrigue additionally includes improvements to pavements around Turnham Green, conflicting the stage of the incident, and to a little roads and channel comforts for pedestrians.

A mouthpiece pronounced the legislature is carrying out the alleviation programme but had been been watchful for Virgin Media contractors to move cabling.

She pronounced no contractors were on-site at the time of the incident.