A teenager has died in hospital after a freak accident involving a sunbed at a flat in South Shields. Grant Adams, 17, cut his neck on a light bulb when he fell onto the sunbed at an address on South Frederick Street early on Sunday.
He was taken to hospital with critical injuries and underwent a five-hour operation but died on Monday evening. His mother, Amanda Smedley, said she found her son, an apprentice bricklayer, 'in a pool of blood'.
Ms Smedley described the incident: 'He stumbled out of bed, tripped and the bottom of the sunbed tubes went into his neck and when he pulled it out of his neck he stumbled down the stairs.' She said her boyfriend tried to stem the bleeding until paramedics arrived.
Grant, who was due to turn 18 in two weeks, had just bought a car and was expecting a baby girl in two months. His mother said: 'He was a happy-go-lucky fun-loving lad... he had everything to live for.'
