A toddler found wandering on a road in Union Township yesterday has been reunited with his mom.

“It was a happy ending all around,” Lt. Steve Ignatz of the state police said.

Neighbors found the youngster, wearing only a T-shirt and diaper, standing almost in the middle of the intersection of Harbor-Edinburg and Old Youngstown roads yesterday morning.

Union Township Police Chief Joe Lombardo received the first call between 9 and 10 a.m.

“I was at the station, my only available officer was in court,” Lombardo recalled. “A woman who lives at Harbor-Edinburg/Old Youngstown Road called saying she found a 2-year-old walking down the road. She said she grabbed him and took him into her house, out of the traffic. She called to ask what she should do.”

Lombardo, who is on light duty at the police station following an injury, said he told the woman he could not leave his post but advised her to contact the state police.

“The most amazing part of all of this is that no one called to report a missing child,” he said.

Neighbors yesterday told a Youngstown television station the child had been in a potentially dangerous intersection.

“They come flying down this hill and through the intersection,” resident Rex Bruno told the station.

Bruno said the woman’s nephews, who were cutting grass, first saw the child.

Troopers who responded went door to door looking for the child’s family.

“We are really appreciative that the neighbors who found the little guy acted as quickly as they did getting him off the street and calling us so nothing happened,” Ignatz said.

According to police, the child got up in the morning and decided to go outside. His mom was still asleep. Ignatz said he was told the child’s mother works a night shift and thought a relative was watching her son, although that was not the case.

“He was only a couple hundred yards from his home but when you’re that small, that’s a big deal,” Ignatz said.

He noted Lawrence County Children and Youth Services was contacted by the police, who are obligated to report such incidents to them.