KUALA LUMPUR: A Year One pupil was injured after being hit by a four-wheel-drive vehicle driven by a foreigner in Bukit Sentosa, Rawang, last Thursday.

Hulu Selangor district police chief Superintendent Ahmad Faizal Tahrim said the 7-year-old boy was about to cross the road before he was hit by the vehicle in the 6.15pm incident.

"Upon getting off the school van, the victim was said to have headed to the back of the van to cross the road before being hit by the vehicle, resulting in a broken left leg," he said in a statement here today.