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<\/p>\nA boy was flown to the hospital after he was hit by a car that drove onto a swale to bypass traffic in Miami Gardens Tuesday morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Miami Gardens Police said officers responded to the crash in the 1200 block of Northwest 188th Street just before 8 a.m.<\/p>\n
The driver of a black Ford Fusion was traveling southbound on Northwest 12th Avenue at a high rate of speed when they tried to get around “slow-moving traffic by driving onto the swale,” police said.<\/p>\n
The car struck a tree and then hit an 11-year-old boy, officials said. <\/p>\n
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A child was flown to the hospital after they may have been hit by a car in Miami Gardens, authorities said. <\/p>\n
Home surveillance video shows two boys crossing the street and going off camera moments before a loud impact can be heard.<\/p>\n
One neighbor rushed over after hearing the impact.<\/p>\n
“I thought it was a bomb or a light went out and then I run outside and call my wife to call the cops,” the neighbor said.<\/p>\n
The victim, identified as a student at nearby Parkway Elementary School, suffered a head injury and was flown to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n
The boy’s grandmother told NBC6 he was walking to school and just two blocks away when he was struck.<\/p>\n
“He was on his way to school, they were crossing the street, and I heard that the person hit them on the sidewalk. I don\u2019t know how that happened,” the grandmother said. “It’s crazy, especially in a school zone with all the kids walking to school. That\u2019s so irresponsible.”<\/p>\n
The grandmother said the boy had an MRI done to make sure there was no internal bleeding or brain injuries, and said he has no broken bones.<\/p>\n
The driver, identified as 23-year-old Darius J. Forbes, was taken into custody and will be booked into jail on charges of reckless driving, police said.<\/p>\n
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