New York Daily News

Car jumps curb – boy, 4, hurt

- Chris Sommerfeld­t, Todd Maisel and Joseph Stepansky

A 4-YEAR-OLD boy playing with a stuffed animal on a Brooklyn sidewalk miraculous­ly survived a bizarre accident Monday that began with a car jumping a curb, dramatic video shows.

The boy suffered only bruises when he got dragged beneath the silver Toyota in the 2:20 p.m. accident outside Happy Land Grocery store, on Seventh Ave. near 52nd St., in Sunset Park, witnesses said.

Surveillan­ce video shows the boy sauntering along when the sedan flies over the curb and mows down a small tree that then falls and sweeps the child beneath the car. The child was in stable condition at Lutheran Hospital, cops said.

An 8-year-old pal of the victim looked away during the rescue. “My mom told me that I was going to get nightmares,” the boy said.

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