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Parents of children at an Oshawa daycare were no doubt terrified to learn five kids under three years old were hit by a car while out for a stroll with a daycare worker on Wednesday morning.
One of the children, a two-year-old girl, suffered life-threatening injuries and was airlifted to a Toronto trauma centre, while the other four kids — three toddlers and an infant — were taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries that ranged from serious to minor.
Durham Regional Police say the daycare worker was out for her daily walk with the children and they were crossing a street in a residential neighbourhood in North Oshawa — northwest of Simcoe St. N. and Taunton Rd. W. — when the group was hit by a white Volvo sedan making a left turn at about 9:20 a.m.
“What we know so far is that a vehicle was travelling southbound on (Niagara Dr.),” acting Sgt. Nicholas Gluckstein told reporters at the scene, explaining the vehicle made a left turn onto Sheridan St.
“The pedestrians — one adult female and five children — were walking northbound. And as they were walking across the street, that vehicle making a left turn struck them all.”
A woman and two children have been rushed to hospital after they were struck by a driver while crossing a street in Oshawa on Wednesday morning.
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Stroller visible on the street behind the car
A white compact car remained on the side of the road on Sheridan, just east of the intersection, and a stroller could be seen just behind the vehicle.
Gluckstein said the intersection is a two-way stop, so there is no stop sign on Niagara. But there is one on Sheridan.
“The person driving southbound, there are no stop signs for them to stop and potentially look around there,” he said. “But five children and an adult female crossing the road is a pretty large site to see.”
“And I can tell you that these are very young children — the oldest being three years old and the youngest being seven months.”
He said a two-year-old girl suffered life-threatening injuries and was initially transported to a local hospital before being rushed via Air ORNGE to a Toronto trauma centre. Police later said she was in stable condition with serious injuries.
Witnesses at the scene told CTV News that the girl had a serious head injury .
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“We were able to have the mother be transported with her in the helicopter to the trauma centre,” Gluckstein said, adding the girl’s father also headed to the hospital with “a police escort.”
Police later said one child and the daycare worker suffered serious, non-life-threatening injuries, while the other three children were being treated for minor injuries at local hospitals.
“The adult female was not a parent (of the injured children) — she is a daycare employee for a daycare in the area,” Gluckstein said, adding the children were “registered with that daycare.”
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He said witnesses confirmed the woman is often seen walking in the neighbourhood with kids from the daycare.
Area residents told reporters at the scene that the woman runs a daycare out of her home.
Gluckstein said the driver, who remained on scene, was being “co-operative with police” and there was no initial information to suggest the motorist was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
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The 62-year-old female driver, whose identity has not been released, was also taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
“As you can imagine, this is quite a complex investigation with that amount of pedestrians and, of course, the driver being transported with injuries as well,” Gluckstein said. “So charges are something the investigators will look at. Nothing that’s guaranteed, but it’s something that they explore as the investigation continues.”
He said it’s too early in the investigation to know how fast the vehicle was travelling, but Niagara has a posted speed limit of 40 km/h.
“That’s something that our investigators will be looking at as they speak to witnesses, which there are quite a few, and as they comb the residences of the area and pull video camera (footage) to see what speed (and) what exactly happened,” Gluckstein said.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the collision investigation unit at 905-579-1520 or 1-888-579-1520, Ext. 5255.
— With files from Jordan Ercit.
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