DIXFIELD — A 7-year-old girl who fell off her bicycle and struck her head early Saturday evening was conscious and alert when taken to Rumford Hospital by Med-Care Ambulance for evaluation, police said.
Patrolman Dave Hodgson declined to identify the child, who wasn’t wearing a helmet to his knowledge.
At 6:44 p.m., an emergency dispatcher in Paris radioed Med-Care that the girl fell off her bike at 25 Highland Ave. and was possibly unconscious.
“She was conscious and crying and talking when I got there,” Hodgson said. “She was riding her bike and fell off and landed on her noggin and got quite a knot on her head.”
The accident happened in the child’s yard.
Hodgson said the Med-Care crew put the girl in a neck brace as a precaution before taking her to the hospital. The child’s mother accompanied her inside the ambulance.
“(Med-Care personnel) told me she was stable,” Hodgson said.
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