PHILADELPHIA - Police are investigating an incident that took place on Monday night in Philadelphia’s Bustleton neighborhood, where a two-year-old boy was hit by a car.
According to investigators, the child ran out from between two parked vehicles while his mother was unloading her car. He was then hit on the 9900 block of Haldeman Avenue just after 8:30 p.m.
Police say at the time of the incident it was dark and raining. The driver, a 29-year-old man in a 2018 Toyota, was not using the car’s headlights or windshield wipers.
The driver told police he never saw the child and stopped his car after feeling like he had hit something. He got out and found the child on the ground with his mother hunched over him.
The boy was transported to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital where he is in critical condition.
No charges have been filed at this time.
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