Car strikes Mississauga boy, 3, driver arrested
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 | 9:08 AM ET
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The injured Mississauga boy was loaded into an ambulance early morning Wednesday. (CBC)A three-year-old Mississauga boy was seriously injured after he left his home in the middle of the night and was struck by a car, police say.
It's believed the boy left through the front door of his family's townhouse on Britannia Road near Glen Erin Road around 1 a.m. Wednesday, while his parents slept.
Police said he put on his father's running shoes, squeezed through a break in the fence and wandered onto the road.
Investigators measured skid marks presumed to have come from a vehicle that swerved before hitting the child.
The boy was taken to Mississauga's Credit Valley Hospital before being airlifted to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
A 48-year-old Mississauga man was later arrested, but has not been charged in the incident, Peel Regional Police said.
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