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7-year-old struck by car, flown to hospital

MIDDLETOWN — Students at Amanda Elementary School will be getting a lesson on school bus and pedestrian safety Tuesday, Feb. 2, after a 7-year-old was struck by a car.

Middletown police said Shawn Austin McQuinn, a second-grader at Amanda Elementary School, was hit at around 4 p.m. Monday by a black Pontiac Grand Prix after darting between two vehicles going east and into the path of the car headed west on Oxford State Road. He was flown by medical helicopter to Children’s Medical Center of Dayton.

The 7-year-old and two other boys were about 250 feet from the school and the school crossing guard when the accident occurred near 1408 Oxford State Road police said.