A 7-year-old boy was taken to the hospital Wednesday night with minor injuries after being hit by a car.

Butler city police and fire units and Butler EMS were called to East Brady Street around 6:30 p.m. for a report of a child hit by a car.

The accident involved a white Honda Civic that was driving east on East Brady Street and was making a left turn on South Cliff Street.

Butler City Fire Department Capt. Ted Codispot said that the car was driven by a woman who lives in the neighborhood and was headed home.

Though emergency responders believed his injuries to be minor, he was placed on a backboard, put in a neck brace and taken to Butler Memorial Hospital as a precautionary measure, Codispot said.

“He’s just scraped up," he said.

City police were investigating the cause of the accident.