Sterling Heights, MI : 14-year-old boy critically injured in truck-bike crash on Van Dyke in Sterling Heights on Tuesday morning, April 26, 2016
Sterling Heights, Michigan
A 14-year-old Sterling Heights boy suffered critical injures in a truck-bicycle crash Tuesday morning on Van Dyke in Sterling Heights, according to police.
The bicycle was traveling southbound on the east side of Van Dyke when it collided with the passenger side of a 2012 Freightliner truck that was exiting a driveway at a Comcast facility south of Metropolitan Parkway, Sterling Heights police said.
The boy, who was found lying in the roadway, was treated at the scene and taken to Henry Ford Macomb Hospital in Clinton Township and transferred to Children’s Hospital in Detroit, where he was in critical condition Tuesday afternoon, police said. The bicycle was extensively damaged.
The truck driver, a 63-year-old Clawson man, told police he was stopped at the sidewalk, thought it was clear and began to drive when the collision occurred, police said. The truck driver was uninjured.
The 10:46 a.m. incident closed the road for three hours, police said.
The incident remains under investigation.
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14-year-old boy critically injured in truck-bike crash