A boy was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after being struck by a vehicle’s side-mirror in east Ottawa on Thursday, Ottawa paramedics say.

A boy was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after being struck by a vehicle in east Ottawa on Thursday, Ottawa’s emergency services say.

According to a statement from Ottawa police, at approximately 7:16 p.m., an eight-year-old child “ran onto the roadway at Cummings Avenue and Eady Court and was struck by a passing vehicle.”