A FIVE-YEAR old Bromsgrove boy was air lifted to Birmingham Children's Hospital suffering from serious head and face wounds after he was involved in what may have been a freak accident.

The boy was in collision with a car soon after he left school last Thursday afternoon, and an eight year old girl involved in the same incident in Dovecote Road, near Millfields First School, was taken to the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch for treatment for shock and minor facial injuries.

Yesterday, a police spokeswoman said the boy was 'comfortable' in hospital and continues to improve.

The girl was discharged after treatment.

Meanwhile, police have refused to deny or confirm a comment made by an officer at the scene that the incident may have been a result of a 'freak accident' in which an unattended car rolled down a drive and into the children as they passed.

The incident happened shortly after 3.25pm as pupils left school for the day.

A section of the road in front of a house was cordoned off to allow the vehicle, a Volkswagan Passat, to be examined and photographed.

An air ambulance was scrambled from Strensham on the M5 and landed in the school's grounds.

Police have not officially named the youngsters - who are said not to be related, but who both live in the Fox Lane and Hill Top vicinity. Neither have they named the car owner.

However, on Monday a message - said to be from the boy's family and stating his name as Jack Stanton, his condition and a 'thank you' to well wishers - was posted on a flip-chart near the school entrance.

Headteacher at Millfields, Sarah Power, said she was unable to make any comment as the incident had happened off the school premises.

PC Nick Ferguson from the road policing unit at Rubery said witnesses were interviewed at the scene, but they are anxious to speak to others who saw the incident to establish precisely what happened.