Accident bystanders lift car off boy pinned underneath
Accident bystanders lift car off boy pinned underneath, Eight to 10 people lifted a car off a 13-year-old bicyclist pinned beneath it and seriously injured after it struck him in a Buffalo, N.Y., suburb, police said.
Town of Tonawanda police said a female driver traveling south on Delaware Road in a dark blue Pontiac Vibe struck the bicyclist about 5 p.m. Thursday as she was turning left onto Sheridan Drive, The Buffalo News reported.
Lt. Thomas Haynes of the Town of Tonawanda Police Department said Gary Stuff, shopping at a nearby Sears Hardware store, saw the boy was trapped beneath the vehicle.
Stuff, chief of the Ellwood Volunteer Fire Company in Kenmore, sprang into action, directing motorists and others near the crash to lift the vehicle off the trapped bicyclist.
"I got everybody over on the passenger side of the car," Stuff told the News. "We lifted the car up to about our waists and another gentlemen slid him out."
The other gentleman was an off-duty Town of Tonawanda police detective, who pulled the boy out from under the car. The boy was conscious and responsive, and told the detective his name, age and telephone number, the News said.
An ambulance took the boy to Women & Children's Hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said.
Town of Tonawanda police said a female driver traveling south on Delaware Road in a dark blue Pontiac Vibe struck the bicyclist about 5 p.m. Thursday as she was turning left onto Sheridan Drive, The Buffalo News reported.
Lt. Thomas Haynes of the Town of Tonawanda Police Department said Gary Stuff, shopping at a nearby Sears Hardware store, saw the boy was trapped beneath the vehicle.
Stuff, chief of the Ellwood Volunteer Fire Company in Kenmore, sprang into action, directing motorists and others near the crash to lift the vehicle off the trapped bicyclist.
"I got everybody over on the passenger side of the car," Stuff told the News. "We lifted the car up to about our waists and another gentlemen slid him out."
The other gentleman was an off-duty Town of Tonawanda police detective, who pulled the boy out from under the car. The boy was conscious and responsive, and told the detective his name, age and telephone number, the News said.
An ambulance took the boy to Women & Children's Hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said.
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