He had just left a grocery store with a box of packaged chips that he planned to bring to his class’s Halloween party. “A truck came around the corner really fast and hit me and my bike,” Harley Cochrane-Hoban, who spoke to him while he was recovering at BC Children’s Hospital, told CTV News. “I went to the injury room and my brain was going crazy. Will I have surgery? Will something bad happen to me?’ he remembered. Nurses Lisa Salt and Quinn Gallacher said the boy was alert and talkative when they checked him at the scene, which is a good sign. But the team felt bad that they had to cut off his Joker outfit during the exam, so they went out and bought him a firefighter outfit as a replacement – on their own dime. “We felt it was the right thing to do,” Solt said. “We felt it needed a costume for Halloween.” Gallagher also gave Harley a pin that paramedics wear on their collar. “I thought I wasn’t going to celebrate Halloween this year,” Cochrane-Hoban said with a smile. “I thought I was going to sit at home and watch Netflix all night.” The elementary school student was visibly shaken, but was not seriously injured. Paramedics said this is just a reminder why it’s so important for drivers to watch out for children, especially this time of year.
