Update: Injured Minnetonka Boy Walks

Sam Seward, 10, has been upgraded from serious to satisfactory condition, according to a Hennepin County Medical Center spokeswoman. Seward was struck and badly injured by a car on April 12 in Minnetonka.

According to the most recent post by Seward’s father on the boy’s CaringBridge page, Seward is currently undergoing physical therapy, which requires him to stand, with assistance, and take about ten steps at a time.

“He can't get up or walk without assistance but it is really nice to see him up,” Seward’s father wrote. “He still can't talk until his trach [tracheal tube] comes out but he is no longer needing breathing assistance.”

To see the boy's CaringBridge page, please click here.

The Minnesota State Patrol report on the incident was expected by June 1 but has yet to be released. City officials told Patch that the accident remains under investigation and that police hope to have more information within the next two weeks. 

The accident happened only yards from Seward's home in the 13500 block of Excelsior Boulevard. He underwent surgery two days after the accident to remove parts of his skull—relieving pressure on his brain.  Although eyewitnesses have offered conflicting accounts of the accident, according to the CaringBridge page, Seward "was struck by a car going to play basketball across the street from his home.”

“He was put into his convertible chair and went downstairs and outside for the first time in seven weeks. It was a nice sunny day, really windy, and I am sure he enjoyed it,” Sam’s father wrote May 31.  

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