Update: Young girl injured in Abingdon cycle accident (From The Oxford Times)

Update: Young girl injured in Abingdon cycle accident

6:46pm Wednesday 1st July 2009 in

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A girl from Abingdon tonight remains in hospital in a critical but stable condition following a collision in the town.

Police closed Copenhagen Drive, Colwell Drive and Mons Way after the girl, who was riding a bicycle, was in collision with a white Iveco van.

Police said the girl was 11 years old and from Abingdon and suffered serious head injuries in the incident, which happened shortly after 4.30pm.

Michelle Ullett, a spokesman for South Central Ambulance Service, said: “We got a call at 4.43pm to Copenhagen Drive near the bridge to a report of a road traffic collision involving a cyclist and a van.

“One of our crews treated one female in her early teens for a serious head injury."

The girl is being treated at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital.