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Video: Small Boy Hit By Car In Brooklyn Jogs Away Seemingly Unharmed

NYC Alerts posted the video, taken from the dashcam of a car driving down Skillman Street, to Twitter Wednesday night.

BEDFORD STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN — A dashcam captured video of a small boy bouncing off the front of a moving car in Brooklyn and trotting away.

New York City Alerts posted the video — which shows a car driving up Skillman Street between Park and Flushing avenues around 7:15 p.m. Tuesday — to Twitter on Wednesday night, according to the Daily News.

The video shows a young boy rushing out from behind a parked car, ramming into the front of the moving vehicle and somersaulting forward onto the concrete.

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He quickly rises, picks up the yarmulke that was knock off his head and jogs across the street, seemingly unharmed.

New York City Alerts refused to disclose who provided the video, and neither the NYPD nor the FDNY had information about an accident at that time and location, according to the Daily News.

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