A three-year-old boy has been rushed to hospital with serious head injuries after he was struck by a car in Sydney‘s west.
Emergency crews were called to Greenbank Drive in Blacktown after reports a young boy had been hit by a car at about midday on Saturday.
The toddler was treated for serious head injuries before he was rushed to The Children’s Hospital in Westmead in a serious but stable condition.
The three-year-old boy was taken by ambulance to The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in a serious but stable condition (pictured, paramedics at the scene on Saturday)
![The Mounties Care CareFlight Helicopter with a specialist doctor onboard was dispatched to the scene and arrived within five minutes of the call (pictured)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/06/08/09/wire-85869553-1717835418-208_634x356.jpg)
The Mounties Care CareFlight Helicopter with a specialist doctor onboard was dispatched to the scene and arrived within five minutes of the call (pictured)
The Mounties Care CareFlight Helicopter with a specialist doctor onboard was dispatched to the scene and arrived within five minutes of the callout.
A CareFlight spokesperson said the quick intervention and the specialist doctor ‘may well have saved the child’s life’.
The three-year-old boy is understood to be in a serious condition with non-life threatening injuries.
A Honda Accord has been seized for forensic testing with the 22-year-old male driver taken to hospital for mandatory testing.
NSW Police said investigations into the incident are ongoing.