A TEENAGER was taken to hospital with serious injuries after he impaled his leg on a park fence.
The Herts and Essex Air Ambulance and an ambulance crew were sent to Melbourne Park in Chelmsford just before 5.30pm on Saturday, May 21, where they treated a 13-year-old boy.
Two fire crews from Chelmsford and a hazardous area response team also attended the scene, where cutting equipment had to be used to free the teenager from the fence.
The boy was then taken to Broomfield Hospital by ambulance in a stable condition with a serious but not life-threatening leg injury.
An Essex County Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: "We were called to Melbourne Park in Chelmsford at 5.38pm.
"Two fire engines from Chelmsford attended the scene where a 13-year-old boy was impaled on a fence.
"The crews used cutting equipment and he was released by 6.11pm and left in the care of the ambulance service."
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