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Worms (dpa / lrs) - According to witnesses, a car driver disregarded a red traffic light in Worms - and hit a seven-year-old boy.

He was walking with his father across a pedestrian ford, as the Worms police department announced.

The boy was thrown by the impact against a car that had stopped in the opposite lane because of the red light.

After the accident on Friday afternoon, the child was taken to hospital with bruises on his leg.

It was still unclear why the 58-year-old woman drove on despite the red light.

There was slight damage to her car.

© dpa-infocom, dpa: 210226-99-613537 / 2

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