A three-year-old Invercargill boy was airlifted to Dunedin Hospital after being hit by a car in Oamaru yesterday afternoon. Sergeant Blair Wilkinson, of Oamaru, said the boy was in a stable condition in Dunedin Hospital last night. A witness, who did not want to be named, described seeing a car's brake lights come on suddenly, followed by a "sickening scream''. "I was just talking on my phone and I saw the brake lights of a vehicle come on and then I just heard an almighty scream,'' the witness said. "I did a double take and I looked and I could just make out a dark form under the car.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 16, 2019 21:00 UTC