PORT ANGELES — A 4-year-old boy hospitalized Sunday after his father unintentionally hit him with his pickup truck has been discharged from Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, a hospital spokeswoman said Wednesday morning.
The boy was injured on Father’s Day evening while his father was backing out of the family’s Place Road driveway in a 2014 Dodge Ram 2500, Brian King, Clallam County Sheriff’s Office chief criminal deputy, said Monday.
No drugs or alcohol were involved, said King, adding that no crime was involved.
The boy, whose fourth birthday was in April, was in serious but stable condition in the hospital’s intensive care unit Monday afternoon with a possible broken pelvis and suspected internal injuries, King said.
The narrow driveway at the home west of Port Angeles had shrubs and trees along the edges.
The boy was airlifted to Harborview with his mother on board, King said.
The child was playing outside when he was injured, the father told authorities.
The father said he was backing up in what King estimated was a 9,000- to 10,000-pound vehicle when he heard his son crying and immediately stopped the truck, King has said.
The father assumed he hit the child because the boy was in such close proximity to the truck, King said.
