Boy, 3, rushed to hospital after falling from second floor window

A THREE-year-old boy has been rushed to hospital after falling from a second floor window.

The toddler fell from a property in Chadwell Heath, east London, shortly before 6pm on Monday.

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The incident took place in Westfield Gardens, Chadwell Heath[/caption]

An air ambulance was called to the scene and took the boy to hospital, where he is being treated for non-life-threatening or changing injuries.

A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said: “Police were called at 6.14pm on Monday to reports of a child falling from a second-floor window at an address in Westfield Gardens, Chadwell Heath.

“The child, a three-year-old boy, was taken by London Ambulance Service to an east London hospital where his condition was not life-threatening or life-changing. There were no arrests.”

A London Ambulance Service spokesperson added: “We were called at 6.07pm yesterday (10 July) to reports of an incident on Westfield Gardens, Chadwell Heath.

“We sent a number of resources to the scene, including two ambulance crews, a medic in a fast response car, an incident response officer and a clinical team manager.

“We also dispatched London’s Air Ambulance. Our first medics arrived in around two minutes. We treated a child at the scene before taking them to a major trauma centre as a priority.”