A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy escaped with a bruised leg after being in collision with a car in Phillips Lane, Colne.

Jake McCullough, of Oxford Road, Nelson, was taken to Burnley General Hospital and discharged after treatment.

He was in collision with a Vauxhall Astra driven by Bernadette Needham, 26, of Wood Street, Hapton, who was unhurt.

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