Boy in hospital after collision
A NINE-YEAR-OLD boy was in hospital last night after he was knocked down on a busy stretch of road.
The victim is thought to have been struck by a car on Prestonfield Avenue in the centre of Edinburgh.
Paramedics raced the boy to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children just after 5:30pm to be treated for head injuries.
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Hide AdAn ambulance spokesman said: "We transported a nine-year-old boy who had been knocked down to the Sick Kids Hospital, suffering from head injuries.
"The injuries are not thought to be life threatening."