Boy run over in driveway

An 8-year-old boy was seriously injured after his head was run over by a car while he was playing hide and seek in a Hamilton driveway last night.

The boy was run over at a house in Tennyson Rd, in Enderley, about 6.50pm, Senior Sergeant Matt Rogers said. "He'd been playing behind the car, and it seems he might have been hiding beneath the car. Somebody's driven the car out and has driven over his head."

The boy was taken to Waikato Hospital with serious injuries. "This seems to be another stupid and tragic and completely avoidable incident where people in cars in drives need to be careful," Mr Rogers said.

Meanwhile, a 2-year-old girl is in a stable condition in Waikato Hospital after she was partially crushed by a reversing vehicle that had to be lifted off her at her Hamilton home on Sunday.