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Connor Hoult: Teenager plunges into path of train
A 14-year old was pulled out of the path of an oncoming train by friends after falling onto a live railway line in Wortley.
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Connor Hoult suffered severe burns to almost a quarter of his body after he plunged off the footbridge at Oldfield Lane, getting caught up in the high-voltage overhead wiring as he fell.
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He was electrocuted severely before falling onto the track below.
The teen, who goes to Farnley Park High School, is now in a stable condition in hospital in Sheffield, where he has been undergoing specialist skin grafts to his legs.
Connor's older brother Jay, 16, told Wortley Today his sibling had been sitting on the bridge with his friends when the horror accident happened..
"He is stable and will hopefully make a full recovery eventually," Jay said.
"The burns go right down to his muscle and he is lucky there is no muscle damage.
"He is needing skin grafts on both the tops of his hamstrings.
"This is all we are willing to say right now as it is a difficult time."
Jay said Connor had suffered severe burns to 22 percent of his body.
However he is conscious and talking, he added.
Earlier reports from the local area said the teenager had fallen into the path of the oncoming Leeds to London train on Saturday.
His friends ran on to the track and dragged him back as the train approached
He was treated at the scene before being airlifted to hospital in an air ambulance.
He was treated at Leeds General Infirmary before being transferred to Sheffield.
A spokeswoman for British Transport Police Leeds confirmed officers were called to the footbridge at Oldfields Lane, Wortley, at just before 6.30pm on Saturday after reports someone had fallen onto the track.
She said there were "no suspicious circumstances".
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