A 12-year-old Brazilian boy was sent flying by a car that hit him as he and his friends played on a busy Rio de Janeiro highway Monday, according to reports.
The collision captured in a video circulating in the British tabloids left the boy fighting for his life after he landed on the ground with a terrifying thud, The Sun reported.
The authenticity of the video and the crash said to have happened on the BR116 Presidente Dutra freeway in Nova Iguaçu weren't immediately verifiable.
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The boy is seen in the footage as one of several kids running across the exit ramp of the crowded motorway to jump into the brown waters of a pool formed in a roadside ditch. Moments before he got thrown into the air, another boy in the group just avoided getting mowed down.
The cars honked at the boys and a man could be heard exclaiming in Portuguese. When the car hit the other boy, the man yelled out, "He's been killed, he's been killed," according to a translation by the Daily Star.
The car kept going after the collision and a truck barely missed the boy as he lay on the ground. The unidentified boy appeared in a Facebook picture cited by the Star hooked up to tubes in the hospital while ailing in critical condition.
His mother Jacqueline Menezes responded to commenters who faulted her for allowing her child to play on the high-speed roadway.
"I hope this serves as a lesson to the other kids who were with him to stop going to that bloody lake," she wrote. "Those who know me know of my struggle to raise my five children and they know about my situation. Those who don't know me shouldn't throw stones."
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