A teenage girl broke her wrist falling off her bike on an icy pavement, leaving her family enraged with the council who they claim 'aren't interested' in gritting the pavements.

Ruby Jane, 13, broke two bones in her wrist when she came off her bike onto the icy path while travelling to school in Oxford yesterday morning.

The Year 8 pupil was taken straight to the hospital, where she was told she may need surgery following the nasty fall on the subway that goes underneath Marston Ferry Road.

Her father, Guy Jane, claimed that the council 'hadn't gritted [the path] at all', describing it as being 'extremely dangerous'.

Ruby's school, the Cherwell School, said she wasn't the only pupil who had a fall on the underpass, which also leads to two other major schools in the city.

The girl's aunt, Lucy Coulbert, alerted Oxford City Council, but she claimed that the council 'doesn't care' and says that her niece is lucky not have more serious injuries.

'I'm reading there is a grit crisis. It's absolutely baffling,' Ms Coulbert said. 'Although it's awful, we kind of consider Ruby to be really very, very lucky.

'At a time where the NHS is overwhelmed, particularly A&E and the paramedic services, and we are being told "don't go there unless you really have to" and we can't treat pavements so that people can move freely around and not hurt themselves.'

Ruby Jane, 13, (pictured) broke two bones in her wrist when she came off her bike onto the icy path while travelling to school in Oxford yesterday morning

The Year 8 pupil was taken straight to the hospital, where she was told she may need surgery following the nasty fall on the subway under the Marston Ferry Road. Pictured: Ruby's X-ray that shows the two breaks

'It's not good enough,' Ms Coulbert said.

'I'm just really, really glad it's not my 95-year-old grandmother, because if she could have broken something serious and I doubt she would have come out of hospital.'

She added that no one she has contacted, including the council and the school, has apologised or enquired about Ruby's well-being.

'Nobody that I've contacted has said, "God, that's really awful. I'm so sorry that happened. Is she okay?",' she said.

'I think it's quite unreal. The councils don't care.'

Ruby's father, Mr Jane said: 'My daughter wasn't the only one, but she was the unlucky one with two fractures in her wrist.

'One is quite a big snap. The other one's a little fracture. But there was near enough every child, and their mum and dads, all coming off their pushbikes.

'And pedestrians who were walking, were also slipping over.

'It was bad. It was crazy how icy it was. The council hadn't gritted it at all. It was untouched.'

Mr Jane believes it should be 'compulsory' for councils to grit pedestrian and cycle routes, especially around schools.