YOUNGSTOWN — A man driving down Midlothian Boulevard about 10 p.m. Wednesday saw a 4-year-old boy who had been hit by a truck lying stomach-down on the street.

“The boy was riding his bicycle and was stuck by a tow truck,” the man wrote in a witness statement released Friday by the Youngstown Police Department.

“The child had two lacerations on his left leg. I moved the boy from the roadway to the grass and provided a makeshift tourniquet to stop the bleeding until (ambulance personnel) arrived,” the man stated.

The witness statement was among three witness statements released by the Youngstown Police Department on Friday, along with other details on the crash that injured the boy. Sgt. Steve Schiffhauer said Thursday the boy was doing well, and the investigation into the accident was ongoing.

Another witness was a female who was sitting on her front porch and saw the accident, saying the “little boy came around the corner to turn around. The tow truck was going eastbound and the back tire caught the bike’s back tire and hit him.”

The driver of the truck, 44, of Boardman, gave a statement, writing, “I heard a sound, turned my head to see what I heard. A bike bounced off of the side of my truck.”

The accident report had a crash-scene diagram showing the boy having moved from Helena Avenue barely onto Midlothian and having collided with the back passenger side of the truck as the truck traveled east on Midlothian.

The diagram shows the little boy making a left turn onto Midlothian from the left side of Helena.

The brief narrative said the bicycle “struck the back of” the truck, “causing (the boy) to be thrown backwards.”

The report indicates the boy lives about four houses down Helena from Midlothian. When asked about the incident Thursday, Schiffhauer declined to talk about whether adults were in the area where the boy was riding.

The report listed the boy’s injuries as “suspected serious,” though Schiffhauer said Thursday the boy was doing well.

An ambulance took the boy to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.

The report does not list any citations having been issued.