By Howard Packowitz
BLOOMINGTON- A child was badly hurt when the bicycle he was riding collided with a car Monday evening on Bloomington’s west side.
The accident happened a little after 7 p.m. at Allin Street and Oakland Avenue.
Cayce Hodgson was sitting on her front porch with family and saw what happened.
“Cars are going by, kids are just jumping and riding their bikes through the road, and I keep telling them, ‘stop, stop, stop!’ This one kid just kept going, and I said, ‘stop.” The lady was coming, and bam, he ran right into her,” said Hodgson.
“It was not the lady’s fault. He never even stopped. He went flying up in the air, and he came down.”
Hodgson and her son-in-law went to check on the boy, while her daughter and granddaughter tried to calm down the driver and passenger in the car.
“He was very badly hurt, but my son-in-law William did a pulse on his neck. I put my hand on his chest, and then he gasped for air, then he started breathing,” said Hodgson.
“He had tears in his eyes, and I kept telling him, ‘it’s going to be okay, baby. It’s going to be okay.'”
An ambulance took the boy to Advocate BroMenn Medical Center, and he was later transported by helicopter to a Peoria hospital. His condition is not available.
A Bloomington Police accident reconstruction specialist was on the scene investigating the crash.
Police said the driver of the car cooperated with investigators.
Howard Packowitz can be reached at [email protected]
