Published:
12:29 PM January 25, 2021
Updated:
3:46 PM January 25, 2021
Multiple ambulances, including two air ambulances, arrive at the scene on the A10 Ely Road at Waterbeach.
- Credit: Sîbel Lä
A five-month-old baby was killed when a van crashed into his pram.
The incident happened at about 3.50pm on the A10, Ely Road, Waterbeach, on Friday when a grey Mazda 2 was in collision with a white Renault Master van.
The van left the road and collided with Rachel Thorold, 36, of Gibson Close, Waterbeach, who was walking on the pavement with her baby Louis in a pushchair.
Ms Thorold is in a critical but stable condition at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.
By Press Association 2021
Rachael Thorold, 36, holds her five-month-old baby son Louis Thorold hours before a van struck his pram (Family/PA)
A baby boy with a “joyful smile” was killed when a van mounted a pavement and struck his pram.
Five-month-old Louis Thorold died following the collision on the A10 in Waterbeach on Friday, Cambridgeshire Police said.
His 36-year-old mother Rachael Thorold, who was pushing the pram, is in hospital in a critical but stable condition, the force said.
Police have released a photo of Ms Thorold holding her smiling son, with the picture taken just hours before the collision.
The first image has emerged of a five month-old boy who was killed when a van mounted a pavement and hit his pram, leaving his mother fighting for life - as his finance director father said in a tribute: Your laughter will never leave us .
Rachael Thorold, 36, was pushing her son Louis in his pram along a pavement beside the A10 in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, when a Mazda 2 collided with a Renault Master van, which then hit Ms Thorold and her son s pram.
Louis died and Ms Thorold was taken to Addenbrooke s Hospital in Cambridge where she remains in a critical but stable condition, police said today.
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52-year-old Nigel Goodwin died six days after being taken to hospital with serious injuries (Image: Police handout)
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