Impaired driver charged after 10-year-old skateboarder hit in Guelph
Posted Jul 25, 2016 01:19:58 PM.
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A 10-year-old boy is recovering in the hospital after being struck by a vehicle in Guelph.
Police say the boy was skateboarding on the side of Yorkshire Street on Monday evening, when he was hit by a vehicle and thrown over 10 feet through the air before landing on the road.
The boy was taken to the hospital with a broken leg.
Police say their investigation is ongoing.
A 22-year-old Guelph man has been charged with driving with over 80 mgs causing bodily harm.