The jarring noise neighbors on both sides of Bond Hill’s Laidlaw Avenue heard around 2 Sunday afternoon was the sound of a small SUV colliding with an 8-year-old boy.”I heard a crash, okay. I just heard a hit. And it sounded real weird,” a woman named Chandrika said. “I saw a little boy hit in the street,” said another neighbor named Yvonne. “I can’t hardly stand it. But I didn’t realize that I knew the little boy.”Both neighbors said the victim was playing with other kids when the crash happened.According to Cincinnati police investigators, a 55-year-old man driving west on Laidlaw Avenue hit the little boy who was trying to cross the busy road. The driver stopped at the scene. Officers say it does not appear that speed or impairment played a role in Sunday’s incident.”We’re sending out much prayers,” Yvonne said. “Everybody in this vicinity, on this block.. my sister…She’s praying … cause she knew the little boy, too.”While shocked by what they saw, the neighbors are grateful a good samaritan stopped the truck he was driving to help the child.”Next thing I saw was a man in a big truck, big rig. He came out and did chest compressions on the baby,” Yvonne said.”I feel he was a Godsend,” Chandrika said. “He really was. Because he started working on the baby. And then the ambulance, they came and then they just took over.””It was just hard it was just hard to see the baby laying in street, not moving,” Yvonne said.It’s not clear where the 8-year-old crash victim goes to school. At this point, he’s at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center where he’s receiving treatment as a critically injured patient.
The jarring noise neighbors on both sides of Bond Hill’s Laidlaw Avenue heard around 2 Sunday afternoon was the sound of a small SUV colliding with an 8-year-old boy.
“I heard a crash, okay. I just heard a hit. And it sounded real weird,” a woman named Chandrika said.
“I saw a little boy hit in the street,” said another neighbor named Yvonne. “I can’t hardly stand it. But I didn’t realize that I knew the little boy.”
Both neighbors said the victim was playing with other kids when the crash happened.
According to Cincinnati police investigators, a 55-year-old man driving west on Laidlaw Avenue hit the little boy who was trying to cross the busy road. The driver stopped at the scene.
Officers say it does not appear that speed or impairment played a role in Sunday’s incident.
“We’re sending out much prayers,” Yvonne said. “Everybody in this vicinity, on this block.. my sister…She’s praying … cause she knew the little boy, too.”
While shocked by what they saw, the neighbors are grateful a good samaritan stopped the truck he was driving to help the child.
“Next thing I saw was a man in a big truck, big rig. He came out and did chest compressions on the baby,” Yvonne said.
“I feel he was a Godsend,” Chandrika said. “He really was. Because he started working on the baby. And then the ambulance, they came and then they just took over.”
“It was just hard it was just hard to see the baby laying in street, not moving,” Yvonne said.
It’s not clear where the 8-year-old crash victim goes to school. At this point, he’s at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center where he’s receiving treatment as a critically injured patient.
