An eight-year-old boy was injured in Albert Road, Colne, at 4-30pm today when he was involved in an accident with a bus.
It happened near Derby Street around 4-30pm. and the road was closed for at least two hours between Stanley House Veterinary Surgery and The Muni. The boy was lying on the road and not under the vehicle.
He was in collision with a Bubble Travel bus and he was taken to the Royal Blackburn Hospital by the ambulance service.
Police closed the road and carried out an investigation into what had happened. They were unable to say just how badly injured he had been.