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A 6-year-old boy from Paraparaumu managed to get away after being hit by a high-speed car, all because he was wearing a helmet, something his mother had insisted on.
Billy Scott was returning from his local dairy with his friends Saturday night when the driver, who had allegedly been drinking, lost control of his car and struck him on the sidewalk.
The impact caused Billy to “fly through the air like an angel” before hitting his head on a fence.
But he left with only minor injuries, something paramedics told his mother, Samantha Millán, was a “one in a billion” chance.
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“Billy should realistically be dead or seriously injured in his head … It’s inexplicable … It’s a miracle in a sense,” Millán said.
However, since the event, Billy and the other children had been traumatized and had trouble sleeping.
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Six-year-old Billy Scott holds the helmet that saved him from a serious injury. His father, Jamie Scott, stands in front of the fence that Billy crashed into.
Witnesses who spoke with Stuff they allege that the driver had been exhausting and speeding down Donovan Rd in Paraparaumu, in the hours before the accident occurred, around 6.40 pm.
Millán said police confirmed that the driver had been drinking.
“He has depleted the Kena Kena shopping complex to a speed of what the police believe was 90 km / h and he reached that corner, which is a blind corner, at about 90 km / h and lost control.”
A power pole was also knocked down during the accident.
It was Billy’s first trip to the dairy without Millán, who only agreed because he took the same route to school every day.
But she insisted that he wear his helmet, even though no one else in the group was.
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Billy Scott, 6, with his friends Delyric Yip, 10, left, and Jayj Yip, 8. Delyric says he heard the car coming too fast and yelled at the group to run.
“I just had a mother’s feeling before the kids left that she needed to put it on… I really don’t know what that was. I’m so glad I did. “
She had been reluctant to spend $ 200 on the expensive helmet, but that investment was what ultimately saved him from a serious injury, paramedics told her.
The group of children he was with, ages 6 to 13, were “really shocked” and crying after the accident.
His friend Delyric Yip heard the car coming too fast and yelled at the group to run, saving two others from where Billy was hit.
After the accident, Billy told his mother that he “flew through the air like an angel.”
He said Stuff, I was “a little scared. I went in the hospital car [ambulance] and they left me at home. And then I lay back on the couch.
“That [the car] I was going too fast, it was like vrooooom. “
Millán thought Billy was dead when he got to the scene.
“The whole road was blocked, ambulances, fire trucks, lots of people and I will never forget that walk. It was the longest walk of my life. I could see Billy lying under a blanket. I didn’t know what to expect. “
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A power pole was also knocked down during the accident on Donovan Rd when Billy was struck.
Police continue to investigate the accident and no charges have yet been brought against anyone.
Millán said the response from the driver and his passenger had angered the community.
She and other witnesses said Stuff they were aggressive with the crowd that had formed and the passenger was “smiling” and laughing.
“There were a lot of people on the scene and I was pretty mad about it. Laughing is pretty disgusting. “
