{"id":321953,"date":"2025-12-18T01:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/321953\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T01:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:19:09","slug":"woman-and-child-hit-by-tram-in-south-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/321953\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman and child hit by tram in south Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trams were halted following the incident<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7_IMG_6147-3_anonymized.jpg\" alt=\"Trams were halted following the incident\u00a0\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Trams were halted following the incident\u00a0(Image: Submitted)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Emergency services raced to a tram stop in south Manchester on Wednesday evening after a woman and child were hit by a tram, the M.E.N understands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police, paramedics and fire crews were called to the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/metrolink\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Metrolink<\/a> stop at <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/didsbury\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Didsbury<\/a> Village shortly before 8pm. A woman and a boy, in his teens, were involved in the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Trams were halted between St Werburgh&#8217;s Road and East Didsbury in both directions following the collision. The teenage boy is said to have sustained minor injuries, and the woman is in hospital with back injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Pictures showed emergency services personnel working at the scene, as all passengers on board also had to evacuate the tram. Transport for Greater Manchester have also been contacted for a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police cars, multiple ambulances and incident response units were seen lining nearby Olive Shapley Avenue amid the major response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Due to a road traffic collision at Didsbury Village, there is currently no tram service between West Didsbury and East Didsbury,&#8221; a live update from the Bee Network read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/greater-manchester-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Greater Manchester Police<\/a> confirmed they were called to the scene at around 7.40pm and that the adult woman had been treated by paramedics at the scene before going to hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trams were halted following the incidentTrams were halted following the incident\u00a0(Image: Submitted) Emergency services raced to a tram&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2434,59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-321953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-didsbury","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}