At around 3.45pm on Wednesday 22 November, the Mounties Care CareFlight Helicopter was tasked by NSW Ambulance after a primary school aged boy was struck by a car in Riverstone.

CareFlight’s specialist doctor and NSW Ambulance paramedics treated the young boy on the scene for head and neck injuries.

The patient was then accompanied by the CareFlight specialist doctor in a road ambulance to the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in a serious but stable condition.