A woman has been charged after a child was run over and critically injured in the state’s Hunter region yesterday, NSW Police say.
About 6.30pm (Saturday 10 March 2018), emergency services were called to a home on Segenhoe Street, in the Maitland suburb of Woodberry, after reports a two-year-old boy had been struck by a Holden Commodore in the driveway.
The child was treated by paramedics and taken to John Hunter Hospital, where he underwent surgery. He remains in a critical condition.
Officers from Port Stephens/Hunter Police District attended and with the assistance of the Metropolitan Crash Investigation Unit commenced inquires.
The driver, a 22-year-old woman, was arrested at a Woodberry home and taken to Maitland Hospital where she underwent mandatory drug and urine testing.
She was taken to Maitland Police Station and charged with dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm - drive manner danger, Negligent driving (occasions grievous bodily harm), not reverse vehicle safely, and alter etc amount of illicit drug in fluid or blood.
The woman was granted conditional bail to appear at Maitland Local Court on Wednesday 28 March 2018.
