BOY CRITICALLY HURT WHEN CAR HITS BIKE.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer LANCASTER - A 12-year-old Lancaster boy was critically injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. Wednesday morning when a car hit him as he rode his bicycle across a busy street on his way to school, officials said. Hit by a 1990 Ford Mustang For other Ford Mustang models and concepts, see . The Ford Mustang is an automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company, originally based on the Ford Falcon compact.[1] about 6:55 a.m. while crossing Avenue I, Ernesto Ruiz suffered major head trauma and facial injuries facial injuries, n.pl trauma to the face and its associated structures, most frequently from traffic accidents, contact sports, and domestic conflicts. and was flown by helicopter to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . ``One of his friends yelled something at him about the Mustang mustang [Sp. mesteño=a stray], small feral horse of the W United States. Mustangs are descended from escaped Native American horses, which in turn were descended from horses of North African blood, brought to the New World by the Spanish c.1500. coming, but he wasn't even looking at the Mustang,'' said Sgt. Gus Risinger of the Lancaster sheriff's station's traffic office. ``He was looking in the other direction when he was hit.'' The boy and his friends were all riding east against traffic on the north side of Avenue I west of 23rd Street East, just up the street from Cole Middle School. In midblock, Ernesto pedaled across the two westbound lanes and across the double-yellow line A double-yellow line is a common road marking meaning different things in many parts of the world. UK Double yellow lines occur only on the side of carriageways and indicate 'no parking at any time'. , and was hit by the car, officials said. The impact threw the boy into the car's windshield, and he was carried for several feet, officials said. If Ruiz had been wearing a helmet, his injuries would have been much less severe, officials said. The car was traveling about 55 mph, the speed limit. ``Fifty-five mph is awful fast when you get hit on a bicycle,'' Risinger said. The driver of the Mustang was not injured in the crash, and officials say he was not cited because the preliminary investigation indicates Ernesto was at fault. It appears that Ernesto's friends did not follow him across the street. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion