A child has been rushed to hospital in a critical condition after being found unresponsive in a northern Adelaide creek bed.
SA Police have confirmed to NCA NeswsWire that officers and paramedics were called to the scene at Paralowie, about 21km north of Adelaide’s CBD, about 9am Sunday to reports of a possible drowning in the Little Para River.
According to Seven News, the child’s parents went looking for the child after discovering the child had apparently wandered off from their home.
During their frantic search, the parents crashed their car into a nearby ditch.
What is believed to be the family car is pictured near the creek
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Emergency services are pictured transporting the toddler to hospital
The child was found unresponsive.
Paramedics worked on the child until they were taken to hospital in a critical condition.
It’s the latest in a string of child drownings in South Australia.
A child, under the age of 10, drowned in the bathtub of a Banksia Park home in early December.
That followed the drowning death of a nine-year-0ld at Waikerie Swimming Centre, about 200km northeast of Adelaide, just days earlier.
