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Firstly, she was okay (well, relatively), she didn't die and she didn't have any broken bones from what we could tell, but it was the most horrible heart in mouth moment to watch. Has anyone here ever seen someone be run over? Has anyone hit someone, or been run over? The poor wee girl had Down Syndrome as well, she basically just ran out into traffic and thankfully the driver had ace reactions and braked immediately but she went up onto the bonnet and then onto the road, my friend and I were among the first ones there... the poor wee girl got up, she was crying, and then we realised she had Down Syndrome and she couldn't communicate properly plus she was in shock, she had this picture book she used to point at things etc... but there was no one to be seen who was looking after her, no mum, no dad, no carer, people said they saw her running up and down the pavement for a little while before she ran out onto the road, so it's not like she just ran away from her mum or anything... and this was at half six at night on a Thursday, why was she in town? So concerned... Didn't find out what happened, we were told to back away and nobody needed to stay by the police, my friend had put his jumper over her but she got up and tried to run away because she was scared and luckily there was a special needs teacher there and she was trying to calm her down... I was actually nearly in tears, the guy driving and his girlfriend were crying as well, omg...