Bayswater crash: Three-year-old boy found injured after being hit by car that fled the scene
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Police are urgently searching for a driver after a young child was seriously injured in a hit-and-run on Friday afternoon.
The three-year-old boy was found with a fractured foot alongside The Strand in Bayswater around 12.30pm.
It is believed he was hit by a blue vehicle and the driver fled.
Cathy, a neighbour, recounted the confronting scene.
“I heard a terrible thump noise and I heard a child screaming and yelling in pain and very distressed,” she told 7News.
Another neighbour said they heard a car “pulling away very fast” around the same time.
His mother was just metres away, inside their home, and ran outside to find her son badly hurt.
The boy told family members that a wheel ran over his leg and a lady got out of the car, held his hand, then moved him off the road before leaving.
The boy’s family rushed him to Perth Children’s Hospital, where he remains in a stable condition.
Anyone who was driving a blue vehicle in the area at the time is urged to come forward via Crime Stoppers.
“Turn yourself in because you’ll get caught anyway,” a neighbour said.
Anyone with CCTV, dashcam or mobile phone vision of the crash or of a blue vehicle in the area is asked to upload the vision directly to investigators here or contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or online here.
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