A young boy was knocked down on Sunday evening on the corner of Amara and Dean Streets - it was ghastly collision as seen in this video but the boy miraculously survived without major injury. The boy was on his bicycle when this oncoming car struck him and dragged him along. When we spoke to the boy's father he declined comment but said that his son was fine. Today we spoke to an area resident off camera about the accident.
Voice of: Eyewitness
"Sunday afternoon well as basic people gathering in their yard and some of us on the street, this vehicle just appeared out of nowhere from Amara and a little boy was crossing the street and actually the vehicle was under a speed so by the blink of an eye the child was already down the other side. You could have heard that bang so hard, what disappoints us all around here is that that vehicle didn't even stop after hitting that child, it just kept on rolling even faster than when it hit him."
Courtney Weatherburne, reporter
"So the little boy he was on a bicycle right?"
Voice of: Eyewitness
"Yes he was on a bicycle and all the neighbors came out. We all ran there because we thought it was a child from around here apparently an uncle was on the scene who picked him up and took him to the hospital because there was no other way to get him there."
"We all have kids around here and we keep asking about bumps, we have a school they put it in front of the school but what happens to this lane that has 4 corners where nobody stops."
"Even if the child, me as a parent, even if the child was at fault, you are driving a vehicle , you won't be able to tell me you didn't see the child crossing the street and the speed you are under, something had to be involved."
Police have not released an official report on the accident as yet. All we know so far is that the father has made a report but he isn't requesting court action.
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