A 10-YEAR-OLD boy was run over outside Bolton Lads and Girls Club — and had to wait 30 minutes for an ambulance.

Identical twin Anthony Holland was hit by a car outside the club in Spa Road at about 4.30pm on January 7.

He was left lying on the road in the rain while his anxious family waited for the ambulance to arrive, after a paramedic on a bike had already got to the scene.

The Great Lever schoolboy was struggling to move his legs after the shock of the incident — but was later discharged with a sprained ankle and cuts and bruises.

His mum Anna Holland said: "It did take the ambulance quite a while to get to him after he was run over.

“He was just lying in the road in the rain. When they finally got him into the ambulance they had to get his temperature back up because it had dropped.”

Mrs Holland said the collision was not the driver’s fault.

She said: “From what I gather from my partner, he just broke away and nipped out. Fortunately he didn’t get all the way out and only his leg was hit.”

People at the scene moved Anthony to the side of the road carefully, to allow traffic to pass.

After being checked over in hospital, Anthony was given the all-clear and is now recovering on crutches, even managing to play with twin brother Jack, eight-year-old sister Mollie, and younger brothers Mikey, aged six, and one-year-old Joshua.

Mrs Holland added: “He is fine now, hopping along, although he is scared to death of roads.

“The other kids are as well because it was a really scary thing for them to see.

“They just saw him lying there.

“The paramedics said he was really lucky it was not more serious and that he had not been badly injured.”

A spokesman for North West Ambulance Service said: “On January 7, we received a call at 4.36pm to the corner of Spa Road.

“We had a paramedic on a push bike sent at 4.42pm and an ambulance arrived at 5.04pm.

“The job has been reported as a Green 2 call, which requires a response within 30 minutes.

“The patient was transferred to Royal Bolton Hospital.”