A father has told how the North West Air Ambulance crew saved his two-year-old son's life after he was struck by a car and sustained life-threatening injuries.
Rob Baron's two-year-old son (now four), Henry, endured horrific injuries when his head went under the wheel of a car on Cowm Park Way, in Whitworth, while out on a walk with his mum and aunt on 20 October 2021.
He suffered from multiple facial and skull fractures, chest and lung injuries, internal bleeding and a lacerated spleen. READ NEXT: Over 500 people at risk of losing job after huge food supplier closes site - latest updates Henry’s aunt Beth described the horror that unfolded, she said: “Me, Henry and his mum Alex went for a walk at teatime.
He was walking between us and just playing. He suddenly took a tumble onto the road as a car was coming past and his head went under the wheel. “My gut feeling was that he was dead.