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Calgary police confirmed charges are pending against the driver of an SUV that slammed into a boy before smashing through the front of a southwest Calgary store Saturday afternoon.

A little after noon, witnesses reported seeing a Cadillac Escalade SUV leave the parking lot and crash through the front of the Frilly Lilly boutique in the Shawnessy Village shopping centre, located on the northwest corner of Macleod Trail and 162nd Avenue S.W.

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A boy was walking outside the store when he was struck by the SUV and carried through the plate glass window, thrown several metres into the shop. Reported to be eight years old, he was found by emergency crews suffering from a variety of serious soft-tissue injuries and broken bones.

EMS stabilized the boy before rushing him to Alberta Children’s Hospital in serious, non-life-threatening condition.

A number of store patrons were examined by paramedics, but none required medical treatment.