"I grabbed it [his hand] and squeezed it to stop the bleeding."
After waiting for 10 minutes the neighbour said someone from across the road offered to drive the boy to hospital.
The neighbour said the group of children didn't attend school and were often seen playing on the road.
"They're on the road daylight till dark ...The kids should have been at school."
"You don't want for these sorts of things to happen but you do because then it can be someone else's problem."
A police spokesperson said they received a call from the hospital at 12.40pm and had been making enquiries at the address.
A hospital spokeswoman said the boy was in a stable condition.