FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Bystanders and emergency workers banded together Friday to lift a sport-utility vehicle off a Framingham second-grader who got pinned under it as he ran to catch his school bus.

Officers said Luis Sanchez was hit about 7:30 a.m. at Taralelli Terrace and Second Street when he darted out from between two parked cars to catch the bus.

"This morning shortly after 7:30 a.m. the police responded to a pedestrian accident involving a second-grader that was struck by a car. This was reported to have happened when the youth, thinking he was late for a school bus ran between parked vehicles into the front of an SUV," Framingham Police Department Lt. Paul J. Shastany said.

Police said Sanchez was pinned underneath the SUV and dragged several feet.

"I was looking out the window, and the driver -- the lady -- she was totally panicked beating on the car, yelling and screaming. I couldn't see the other side of the car," witness Jack Glorioso said.

"There were three other officers on scene. The four of us tried to lift the car off of him, and we could not do it," Framingham Police Department Officer Ed Burman said.

He said that five or six men rushed to the SUV and lifted it off the child.

"A couple of guys who were standing around, they lifted the car up and pulled the kid out. He was pinned under the car," Glorioso said. "They are heroes for what they did."

"We jumped and said, 'Let's lift the wagon to get the kid out, so we did. I am still shaking. When something happens and it's a kid -- I have kids too," said Jose Rivera, who helped lift the car off the boy. "He was unconscious, and he had head injuries. I pray to god that he will be OK."

"People came out and rallied around and helped the officers," Shastany said.

Sanchez was taken to the Floating Hospital for Children in Boston, where he was listed in critical condition with arm and chest injuries.