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Witness call after Northumberland train crash | |
(about 4 hours later) | |
Police say witnesses are crucial to establishing how a car crashed on to a rail line before it was hit by a train badly injuring a boy of 11. | |
A Range Rover carrying a mother and her two sons came off the A69 and ended up on the railway line near Greenhead, Northumberland, on Wednesday afternoon. | |
The 11-year-old boy is critically ill in hospital. | |
Northumbria Police said one line of inquiry was that another vehicle had been involved before the train crash. | |
Police said the Range Rover was travelling west on the A69 when it crashed on to the Newcastle-Carlisle railway line and received "a blow from a train". | |
The boy was airlifted to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle. His mother was also taken to hospital with minor injuries. | |
Open mind | |
Earlier, Northumbria Police said they believed having spoken to witnesses that a vehicle may have left the scene and they were initially treating it as a hit and run road traffic collision. | |
They have now said that is one of the lines of inquiry. | |
Det Insp Peter Reeve, from Northumbria Police said: "I am not ruling anything in, I am not ruling anything out. We have got an open mind in relation to this." | |
He urged anyone who was in the area at the time to contact police. | |
British Transport Police said the freight train remained upright and on the tracks. | British Transport Police said the freight train remained upright and on the tracks. |
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch has been informed. | The Rail Accident Investigation Branch has been informed. |
Northern Rail said all lines between Carlisle and Hexham were blocked following the crash on Wednesday afternoon but services were running normally on Thursday. |