Six-year-old boy hit by car suffers facial injuries

A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy suffered facial injuries after he was run over by a car on his way to school.

The Edward Heneage Primary pupil was walking to school with his 11-year-old brother when witnesses saw him run out into the path of a purple Chrysler Voyager.

It happened at 8.40am yesterday on the corner of Sixhills Street and Edward Street, Grimsby, in front of shocked pupils and parents during the morning school run.

The driver, believed to be a man in his late 40s, was not arrested.

Mother of twins, Donna Powles, 25, of Hainton Avenue, Grimsby, rushed to the side of the boy, who was covered in blood and screaming for his mother. She said: "Two women were standing on the corner and I heard one of them shout at a little boy to wait.

"I turned around and saw the car hit him. The back wheel went straight over the little lad.

"I ran to him. Afterwards I burst out crying. I just felt so sorry for him.

"The driver wasn't going fast, and the little boy just ran straight out in front of him."

The boy's mother arrived shortly afterwards and he was taken by ambulance to Grimsby's Diana Princess Of Wales Hospital, where he stayed overnight. His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.

Edward Heneage's head teacher came out of the school and told parents to take their children away from the traumatic scene.

Parents said a school support worker also went with the boy to hospital.

Katriona Murray, 27, of Edward Street, said: "I came out to watch the kids going to school and saw the little boy sitting with lots of people around him. He was crying hard.

"I felt sick when I saw him on the ambulance stretcher."

Both streets were cordoned off by police officers while investigations were carried out and reopened at 11.25am.

PC Gareth Walker was at the scene and confirmed that the driver had not been arrested.

Anyone with information is asked to call Humberside Police on 101, quoting log number 105 of June 4.