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Boy (16) dies after car enters water-filled ditch near Boston
Friday - A SIXTEEN-year-old boy has died after a car carrying five people, including a two-year-old child, entered a water-filled ditch in Stickney.
Emergency services were called to Midville Road near Corporation Farm where a silver Citroen Xsara had left the road at about 7.50pm yesterday (Thursday).
Four people including the driver managed to get out of the car, but a 16-year-old boy was trapped inside.
The first officer on the scene swam to the vehicle and rescued the boy, but after being taken to Pilgrim Hospital he died a few hours later.
All the other occupants were taken to Pilgrim Hospital for treatment for shock and other injuries, but none are reported as life threatening - although the two-year-old child was due to be transferred to Queen's Medical Centre, in Nottingham, for further treatment.
The car was being driven by a 39-year-old woman from Dunmow, in Essex, who is the mother of the two-year-old. There were two other boys in the car, one aged 15 and another aged 14, also from Dunmow. The 16-year-old was also from Dunmow.
Insp Gordon Richard from the Force Command and Control Centre said: "It was a gallant effort by the officer to rescue this young boy and it is a tragedy that despite the efforts of all the emergency service responders he died later in hospital."
Police are appealing for witness to contact them on the witness hotline: 01522 558855 or the non-emergency number 0300 111 0300.
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