A young boy has died after being run over on the driveway of a house in West Yorkshire.
Neighbours said scores of paramedics, police cars and an air ambulance were called to a home in Wakefield at 2.14pm on Wednesday.
A spokesman for West Yorkshire police described the collision as a “tragic incident” and said inquiries were ongoing to establish what had happened. The child’s age has not been released.
The incident is understood to have happened on Lingwell Nook Lane, a quiet country road in the village of Lofthouse, about three miles north of Wakefield.
A neighbour, Reave Westwell, 21, said: “I was at the front of my house and emergency response cars sped past. It’s a quiet lane in the middle of fields and I just walked down and the air ambulance was circling quite low. It landed in the field opposite.
“Then I heard lots of sirens and police cars and ambulances. They all hurried up the road and blocked it off. At one point there were three ambulances and nine police cars. All the neighbours were coming out and looking. Police said it was a sensitive issue. I’m just a bit shocked because it’s a really quiet road.”
Another neighbour, Ian Whitworth, told BBC Radio Leeds: “I’m completely devastated, completely shocked. It’s a small road and although we don’t know each other intimately we know each other well enough to say hi. I can’t imagine how awful it must be and I feel terrible for the family.”
Another resident, Ian Fryer, was quoted by the BBC saying: “I heard the helicopter landing at about 2pm and then the next minute loads of police arriving, ambulances, and I just stood out in the street for a little while with the neighbours looking at what had happened.”
