12-year-old boy recovering at home following freak accident
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By Hayley Robinson
This dramatic X-ray shows the
handlebars of a bike embedded in the top of Bradley Cannell’s right
thigh following a freak accident.
The Sittingbourne Messenger
exclusively revealed last week how the 12-year-old Westlands School
pupil was trying to mount a kerb in Kenilworth Court,
Sittingbourne, when he fell from his mountain bike. As the bike
crashed down on top of him the handlebar pierced his skin forcing
him to scream out in agony.
Firefighters spent an hour cutting
the bike away from him. Then, with the handlebar still inside his
leg he was flown by Kent Air Ambulance to the Royal London Hospital
in Whitechapel where he underwent a four hour operation to remove
it.
Remarkably he was up and walking
the following day and on Saturday (July 10) - just four days
after the accident, Bradley was allowed to return to his home in
Howard Avenue, Sittingbourne.
Bradley said: "When the
paramedics told me the handlebar was in my leg I wasn’t really
aware of what was going on as I was taking some gas. So when my mum
told me everything I was shocked.
"Now I can’t even look at a
bike."
For the full interview see this
weeks Sittingbourne Messenger.
Tuesday, July 13 2010
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