On the road on a bicycle

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On Saturday afternoon, a five-year-old boy was hit by a car in Stössing in the district of St. Pölten (Lower Austria). The child had to be flown to hospital with injuries. 

The accident occurred on Saturday afternoon in the municipality of Stössing. A 61-year-old driver was driving his car on the country road in the direction of Stollberg when a child rode onto the road on his bicycle. Despite immediate emergency braking by the car driver, a collision could not be prevented. 

To hospital by helicopter
The five-year-old boy had to be flown to Vienna's Donauspital by rescue helicopter with injuries of indeterminate severity. The 61-year-old remained uninjured.