Boy Hit By Car At Bus Stop To Be Released From Hospital

A little boy hit by a car earlier this week is out of the hospital, but he still needs another surgery.

Police are calling it an accident - after the 5-year-old boy was hit by a car on Monday at a school bus stop.

The driver wasn't ticketed and won't be, according to police.

Corbin Wooley is ready to roll out of the hospital, but first he's got to answer a question....

"Cause Batman has a cape and Superman has a cape, so which one am I?" he asked.

His parents go with Superman, and he's got the steel to prove it. Corbin has rods and pins in his leg to hold it together.

The police say the driver who hit him wasn't at fault and that Corbin darted out into the crosswalk. His father Josh got there while he was still sprawled out in the grass after it happened.

“I get up there to him and his leg is obviously broken through his pants," Josh Wooley said.

But Corbin's leg is healing. It was actually an injury to his liver that kept him in the Children's Hospital at St Francis for five days, but his liver is healing up too. He'll be in a wheelchair for six weeks, and need a walker for six weeks after that.

“18 months from now we have to come back and do another surgery to remove the nails and rods from his thigh and he'll be good after that,” Josh Wooley said.

Corbin seems to have taken it all in stride, living off ice cream and lots of attention in the hospital.

He's quick to point out, this was the first time he's been hit by a car.

"There was the one time when I jumped off my bed and it was high and I broke my leg, and got a cast," he said.

But this accident comes at a hard time for the family, with his mother back in school and his father recovering from an injury at work.

“And then this happens, so it's just been one trial after another, but the big picture is that he's OK,” Josh Wooley said.

A tragedy fund has been set up to help Corbin and his family at RCB Bank.