He's the "poster boy" for everything that we are repeatedly warned about children and road safety..
Two days after he was hit by a car at Yellow Rock, miraculously lucky nine-year-old Jett Reid was up at Ellison Road Public School showing off his injuries.
"No breaks, no internals, his CT scan showed slight bruising to the brain and they stitched up his head," his Mum, Jo Reid said.
"The principal at Ellison Road Rob Hutchinson says he could be the poster boy for road safety [but] he just wanted to show his friends that he was OK."
Ambulance paramedics and CareFlight's Medical trauma team rushed to Singles Ridge Road about 3.30pm last Tuesday (September 2) to airlift Jett to hospital after he had been hit by a car. He was in a serious condition.
After an overnight stay at Westmead Children's Hospital he was allowed to leave the next day in a wheelchair.
He needs to have one more week of rest at home - to ensure he doesn't have another knock - before he can return to school.
Mrs Reid said the accident happened when "something got caught in the bus door, my 13-year-old daughter Hayley waited but Jett didn't want to wait. He's nine and he wanted to get home."
"He went to the middle of the road and got trapped and then he just ran."
She said Jett was hit and thrown 50 metres - "his shoes were still at the point of impact" but "luckily he's landed on the nature strip and his schoolbag took the brunt of it".
He remembers waking up in a picnic blanket by the side of the road.
Pint-sized Jett has received about 120 home-made get well cards from his schoolmates.
"One wrote 'You're just like Steve from Minecraft, you've got diamond armour'," she said.
"The doctor said if I'd been big I might have ended up under the car," Jett told the Gazette.
"I did more damage to the car than it did to me, I smashed up his number plate with my hip," he said with a cheeky smile.
Mrs Reid said the family "wanted to bring some awareness to drivers to be cautious around school buses" and also for other children to wait while getting off buses.
Despite a visit to Yoghurtland and a few other treats, Jett said he was bored at home and keen to get back to school. His mum has relented and let him go to DigiEd on Tuesday and book week tomorrow (Thursday).
He will be in the parade as his favourite character, Willy Wonka.
Mrs Reid said the driver of the car had visited Jett in hospital and both he and the bus driver, had been traumatised by the event.
"It was quite traumatic for everyone."
