[Vanderbijlpark 18 January 2012 16:30]
A young boy of approximately 10 to 12 years old has sustained critical injuries after being knocked by a car in Vanderbijlpark.
The woman who was driving in a Toyota SUV with her two teenage children was driving along Marlbank Road away from the Stokkiesdraai Road when the incident occurred. The child seemed to want to cross the road but may have misjudged the distance of the vehicle. The SUV then knocked him and he was flung onto the roadside.
Paramedics who arrive at the scene immediately initiated life saving treatment on the boy. He was barely conscious and he needed to be placed on an external breathing machine. He also required extensive treatment for a severely broken leg. The ER24 Discovery Medicopter was then dispatched to the incident so as to take the child to an appropriate medical facility in Johannesburg where he would get the appropriate treatment for his severe injuries.
The adults that were allegedly walking with the child at the time of the incident were not injured, and neither were the woman or her two children in the car.
It is not clear as to what exactly happened to cause the child to be injured so severely but police would be investigating.
Vanessa Jackson, ER24