Police: 2-year-old hit by car in Walpole, airlifted to hospital

WALPOLE, Mass. — A young child was hit by a car in Walpole Friday evening, according to the police chief.

The 2-year-old victim was in an ambulance waiting to be transferred to a medflight helicopter as Sky25 looked on shortly after 4 p.m.

Police did not have information on the child's condition immediately.

Officers were seen photographing a silver Jeep on Lincoln Road, near where police said the child was hit around 3:30 p.m.

“It makes me sick. It’s heartbreaking … it’s so sad and scary that road is terrible,” Kelly Doucette told Boston 25 News. She lives along that road and said the sun glare can make the road dangerous in the afternoons. “Speed is a factor on that road. Sun glare is terrible … I don’t know exactly w here it was but trees are overgrown at certain times of the year … it’s a bad road.”

Police said the solar glare appears to have bene a factor and the child may have stepped out into the road abruptly from behind a retaining wall.

Investigators say it appears the driver swerved to avoid a collision and the side of the vehicle may have been where the impact occurred.

Police said the child was conscious and alert when taken to Boston by heclicopter.

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