The Co Londonderry road where a youngster was injured in a lorry collision has now reopened.

Emergency services were called to the Boleran Road, between Coleraine, Limavady, and Garvagh, shortly before 4pm yesterday.

The Air Ambulance and two emergency ambulances, an ambulance officer were dispatched after a 999 call at 3.50pm.

The girl, who was a pedestrian, was treated at the scene before being flown to the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children for further treatment.

DUP councillor Michelle Knight-McQuillan said the community's "prayers are with the young girl in hospital this morning".

"It is a very difficult time for the family and obviously the community will rally around them," she said.

Meanwhile, a post on social media from Loreto College, Coleraine asks for prayers for a Year 9 pupil who was injured in a collision.

‘As a school community and Loreto family we hold in prayer our Year 9 student. We pray for her healing and recovery,’ says the post.

‘We also pray for her parents, siblings, and wider family circle.

‘We pray too for all those caught up in last night’s accident, especially the driver of the lorry and all the emergency services who attended the scene. We entrust them all into God’s hands.

‘We ask God to guide the healing ministry of the doctors and nurses in The Royal Hospital for Sick Children who are caring for her at this time’.

In another appeal for prayers, Ballerin GAA posted: ‘We ask our community to come together to pray for a young member who was injured in an accident this evening.

‘The rosary will be said at 8pm in St Mary’s Church. Padre Pio pray for her’.