A seven-year-old boy suffered serious injuries after being struck by a tractor-trailer Thursday morning.
Police have laid charges against a 47-year-old Ottawa truck driver after the boy was struck at Bank Street and Heron Road.
At 10:12 a.m., the boy was with his mother when his leg became caught under the wheel of a tractor-trailer, said Ottawa paramedic spokesman J.P. Trottier.
Police said the transport truck was traveling southbound on Bank Street and was making a right turn to go westbound onto Heron Road. As the turn was executed, the rear tires of the towed trailer jumped the curb and ran over the boy’s left leg, police said.
Paramedics rushed to the scene, where the found the boy still conscious. They treated him for serious fractures to his upper and lower leg and possible internal injuries. He was transported to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, where he is in serious but stable condition.
“It was a horrible thing to happen to a seven-year-old boy, but in the physical sense, he will be fine,” said Trottier. “He will come out of it.”
Joseph Kenneth Michael Paasila, was charged with making an improper right turn under the Highway Traffic Act.
