12 Year old seriously injured/struck by car...
by News Department on 07/01/15A 12-year-old Schuylkill County boy was seriously injured after being struck by a vehicle on Monday.
State police at Frackville said the incident occurred about 4:20 p.m. at the intersection of Coal and Pine streets, in the village of Cumbola, Blythe Township.
Troopers said the boy was traveling downhill on Pine Street operating a non-motorized toy scooter while 18 year old Herman Garcia, of Reading, driving a 1999 Honda Accord, was southbound on Coal Street.The boy failed to stop for a posted stop sign at the intersection where the front of the Honda impacted the scooter in the middle of the intersection.
The victim was flown to the Lehigh Valley Hospital, Cedar Crest. Troopers termed his injuries as severe.
Garcia and two rear passengers, a female and male, both age 5, were all not injured.
