A TEENAGE boy has been rushed to hospital after he tumbled 50ft down a woodland bank and suffered head injuries.

Ambulance and fire crews were called to Amados Drive on the edge of Plympton, a suburb of Plymouth, Devon, at 3.55pm on July 12.

The teenage boy was injured near Amados Drive, pictured, in Plympton

The 13-year-old boy had fallen down what was described as a bank in a wooded area and ended up on a footpath.

A spokesperson for the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said: “He had suffered head injuries and possibly back injuries.”

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Crews from the fire service were able to get the youth onto a stretcher and back up the bank to the road.

He was taken to Derriford Hospital by land ambulance for treatment.

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Around the same time the Devon Air Ambulance landed at Underwood Recreation Ground, in Plympton, but it is not clear if this was in response to the boy’s fall.