Boy, 5, thrown 20 metres down road during hit-and-run in Darwin

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NT Police say witnesses saw a silver car strike and injure a young boy in Darwin's northern suburbs yesterday afternoon before driving away.

Northern Territory Police are searching for a driver who hit a five-year-old boy and sent him "flying" before driving off near the Leanyer Recreation Park in Darwin.Police are searching for the driver of a silver carParamedics were called to Vanderlin Drive at 5:30pm on Monday and transported the boy to Royal Darwin Hospital."The driver of the car didn't stop and continued along Vanderlin Drive towards Casuarina," NT Police Watch Commander Greg Pusterla said.

"Me and my father started running, full-on sprinting, and as we got to him he was unconscious," he said. "Honestly I thought the kid passed away. Then we started shaking him and he regained a little bit of consciousness.

 

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