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Boy, 9, Struck by Car Remains in Hospital

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Tom Sofield
Family outside Lower Bucks Hospital as a helicopter transports the boy to CHOP. Credit: Jeff Bohen/LevittownNow.com
Family outside Lower Bucks Hospital as a helicopter transports the boy to CHOP.
Credit: Jeff Bohen/LevittownNow.com

The 9-year-old Levittown boy struck by a car last Thursday afternoon outside the Bristol Township Municipal Building and on Bristol-Oxford Valley Road police station remains hospitalized at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Sgt. Chuck Burns said Monday that the boy’s condition has been upgraded.

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The driver of the Toyota sedan that hit the boy was “completely cooperative and voluntarily gave us blood,” Burns said. Drugs and alcohol are not suspected to have played a role in the accident.

They boy, an Indian Creek resident, was taken to Lower Bucks Hospital and transported by medivac helicopter to CHOP.

Police said the crash happened at around 4:30 p.m. and caused fire police to divert traffic from the scene.

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Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield has covered news in Bucks County for 16 years for both newspaper and online publications. Tom’s reporting has appeared locally, nationally, and internationally across several mediums. He is proud to report on news in the county where he lives and to have created a reliable publication that the community deserves.