Boy In Hit-And-Run Undergoes Plastic Surgery

When the West News reported that a five-year-old boy is undergoing plastic surgery for head wounds after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in Ridgewood.

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The boy’s mother Sharon Anderson, speaking from her son's bedside, has pleaded with the driver to face up to his crime and turn himself in. Her son Jason was playing with his step-brother, step-sister and dog outside the family home, near the intersection of Connelly Drive and Rathkeale Boulevard, when the incident happened. He was hit when crossing the road in an attempt to catch their dog Bruno. His 14-year-old step-sister Kerri-Anne saved him from certain death.

"The car flew round the corner at a high speed and Kerri-Anne yelled at him to stop and grabbed him but she couldn't pull him back in time," Ms Anderson said. "If she hadn't taken some of the force…he would have just gone under the wheels."

The neighbors called an ambulance and alerted Ms Anderson, who rushed to the hospital from work.

"He has a huge laceration on his head right down to his skull," she said. "What do you do as a mom, I was just distraught, he is my little boy," she said. According to a top San Diego plastic surgeon, the victim will need facial plastic surgery to restore his facial structure. To restore victim’s appearance after he or she has suffered facial trauma of this kind, San Diego rhinoplasty, cheek reconstruction, and skin surgery.

Witnesses told police the driver stopped and told them he was going to re-park his car so he could be closer to the scene but instead fled. He was driving a white Toyta HiLux or Landcruiser, which was towing a grey tradesman’s trailer. Believed to be about 22, with olive skin and a slim build, he was last seen heading west in Merriwa. For more information regarding facial reconstructive surgery, as well as other cosmetic surgery procedures like San Diego tummy tuck, and facelift surgery, contact your local plastic surgery specialists to learn more.