A PERTH schoolboy is lucky to be alive after he was “clotheslined’ by a wire trap set up near Mandurah train station.

The excited seven-year-old was on his way home following a recent West Coast Eagles match in Perth when he ran through a track at a empty block near the station.

His distressed mother Tanya told the Mandurah Coastal Times her son hit the wire “at full pelt, his legs flew into the air” and then he landed hard on his back.

Camera Icon Joel Mildwaters, 7, shows the injuries to his neck after he was “'clotheslined’’ by a wire trap at Mandurah train station. Credit: Supplied, Community Newspaper Group.

She explained he also hit his head and was left scared by the incident.

Joel now has extensive bruising around his throat, which she said was “very sore”.

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