Toddler fighting for life after horrifying eight-storey fall from block of flats in Surrey

15 March 2023, 20:51

A toddler was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries after plunging eight storeys from a flat in Surrey.

The boy, two, was airlifted for treatment on Tuesday afternoon after the fall, on Spelthorne Grove in Sunbury-on-Thanes, a leafy commuter town to the south-west of London.

The shocking incident is said to have taken place at Cedar House. Officers have not given a reason for the little boy's fall and are continuing to investigate.

A spokesperson for Surrey Police said: 'We were called to reports of a child who had fallen from the window of a block of flats on Spelthorne Grove in Sunbury at around 3.50pm yesterday afternoon (14 March).

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"Officers attended along with colleagues from the South East Coast Ambulance service and a two-year-old boy was airlifted to hospital where he remains in a critical but stable condition.

"The police cordon at the scene has now been removed and the investigation to establish circumstances is ongoing.'