A Telford boy was fighting for his life in hospital today, on his eighth birthday, after being hit by a car outside his home on his way back from a local shop.
The boy, named locally as Tom Rowley, was walking home when the collision happened in Hadley Park Road, Leegomery.
He was taken unconscious by ambulance to the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford before being flown to Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
Tom has serious head injuries and his condition was critical today as his parents waited at his bedside.
The accident happened just before 5.30pm yesterday, shortly after Tom had called in at Hadley Park Stores, just 50 yards from his family home on the other side of the street.
Pardeep Sahota, whose family owns the store, said: “Tom comes in every day, sometimes twice, and you couldn’t meet a more polite boy or nicer family.
“Just after he bought some cat food last night, I heard there had been an accident and dashed outside.”
Tom’s next-door neighbour, Maureen Pritchard, was in tears today as she spoke of his fight for life.
“He’s fractured his skull and the next 72 hours are crucial,” she said.
“We haven’t slept at all. Everybody in the street is so distressed and our hearts go out to his parents and older sister.
“He’s a lovely, quiet, unassuming boy. It’s his eighth birthday today. We call him Big Tom because he plays with my grandson Tom who is a little younger.”
Police spokesman Chris Ammonds said the car was a silver BMW driven by a woman and called for witnesses.
“We would very much like to hear from anyone who saw it happen or events leading up to it,” he said.
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too any accidents involving kids, heart breaking,
My thoughts are with the family, stay strong and i hope all works out for Tom.
Car Drivers – please remember kids do not see the roads as a danger so keep your speed down and look out for them
Good luck Tom xxx
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Happy Birthday babe
I hope your up & about soon to play with all your new toys.
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love and best wishes to all the family, i hope Tom comes through this, happy birthday xx
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God bless you all. My thoughts are with Tam, Sean, Abi and Tom. Be strong. xxxx
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thoughts are with tom, sean, tammy, and abigail, at this sad time, be strong and pull through tom. our prayers are with you all from many people in dublin. god bless.
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heart felt wishes to tom and his family =x happy birthday sweetheart xxx
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our thoughts are with you all at this worrying time. Get well soon Tom :0) xxx
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I am Tom’s great grandad, my wife and I are praying for his recovery, we are at present living in Malta,we are returning to Uk in a few weeks 30th July to be exact, we hope with God’s help he will there to see us,
Howard & Irene Jones.
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We know Tom and his family and we are deeply upset about what has happened to Tom. We send our thoughts and prayers that Tom will recover soon.
Love David Sharon & Cai XXXXX
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That is a bad street to drive through. Always a fear of mine that someone will appearfrom behind a parked car especially by the shop. Thinking about Tom and his family xxxx
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hi i know tom he is such a lovely boy and so polite and so i wanted to say my thoughts are with him
all the best
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My thoughts and prayers go to this little boy and his family,
Rachael
Leegomery
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Hope u get better soon. Everyone from HPR
are praying for you. Xxx
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I told police inspector Paul Arnold and Paul traynor from T and w at a meeting concerning parking and traffic in Hadley Park Road that due to speeding and antisocial parking that a serious accident was inevitable unless measures were taken, sadley it has now happend.My thoughts and prayers are with Tom and his family.
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i know tom he is my best friends little brother he is so friendly.
hang in there tommy miss u
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stay strong little man, your obviously loved very much.
all thoughts are with tom and the family
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Hi
I work at the school Tom attends with his sister and just wanted to say that everyone is sending positive thoughts to Tom and his family.
Keep strong. Su Harris and family
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i am abi’s best friend and i go to tom’s school. i wish his family all the best and hope tom gets better.
lots of love
katie xx
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Hope you get well soon best friend. Missing you at school.xx Nathan
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I was so sorry to read about Tom. Love and best wishes to Tom and all the family. Very much routing for you. x
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I work at the school that Tom and his sister attend. I would just like to let Tom and his family know that my thoughts are with you all at this worrying time.
Love Jo Mcccarthy
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Thank you all for you loving support. with all of your good will tom stands a chance. thank you for your positive comments we would like to send a heartfelt thankyou firstly to the ambulance crew who transported tom to the prh secondly to all of the staff at the prh who worked so hard to enable tom to be transported by helicopter thirdly we would like to thank the air ambulance team for delivering him safely to birmingham childrens hospital and finally we would like to thank all of the staff in the intensive care unit at birmingham who continue to work tirelessly to keep tom with us.without all of these people tom would not be with us so thankyou to you all and please continue to will him on. Special thanks to pardeep at the shop and our wonderful family friends and neighbours sean tammy and abi rowley
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All our thoughts and hopes are with you Tom – Sebastian can’t wait to see you again,
all our love, xxx
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I work at the school where Tom and Abi go and I would just like to say that my thoughts are with all of you. Get better soon Tom. XXX
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I work in Dothill too and often see the 4 monkeys which include my little boy Luke, Tom, Nathan and Ryan togther playing and laughing. You couldn’t meet such a sweet little bunch of friends and know the boys are missing Tom very much. Keep fighting little man! love and positive thoughts to all the family.
tom luke nathan and ryan best friends forever from luke
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Our thoughts are with you Tom Get well Soon….
Also thoughts are with Sean, Tammy and Abi. Stay strong.
Marie, Steve, Helen, Lee and Melissa
Also Josie & Paul
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Our thoughts are with you….Tom Get well soon
Also with you Sean, Tammy and Abi
Stay Strong
Marie, Steve, Helen, Lee and Melissa
Also Josie and Paul
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Tom,
Your Uncle, Auntie and Cousin can’t wait to see you soon. We all love you Tom and we know you will pull through this.
Sean, Tammy and Abi, our thoughts and prayers are with you all. Love you little Bro. X
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Tom, yor Uncle, Auntie and Cousin can’t wait to see you. you are a little fighter. We all love you.
Sean, Tammy and Abi, our thoughts and prayers are with you. Words are not enough. We are here for you all. Love you little bro. x
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hurry home tom so you can read all these lovely things people have said about you. you have so much more you have to do yet and everyone loves you so so much. just like me and grandad do here in ireland. everyone here is praying for you and loving you none more than us me little chicken. we love you three sugars and to the stars and back. hurry home we need you .nanny and grandad irelan XXX
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Tom your a great little lad with a loving and caring family. You bought many smiles in the office when your mum used to bring you in.
Everyone here is praying for a full recovery and cant wait to see that big smile of yours again.
Our thoughts are with you Tom as well as your Mum, Dad and sister, Abi.
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