Olympia, WA : No fault found in bicycle-truck collision on Wednesday, 21st September 2016

A 14-year-old Bainbridge Island boy was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with neck injuries after his bicycle collided with a truck on High School Road just after school on Wednesday.

The accident occurred just after 3 p.m. Sept. 21 near Captsan Drive after classes ended for the day at Bainbridge High.

Bainbridge Island Police Chief Matthew Hamner said neither the driver of the truck, a 50-something Bainbridge woman who was not identified, nor the teen, also not named, was at fault.

Still, Hamner said police were told at the scene that the youth had been riding his bicycle the wrong way against traffic when the crash occurred.

Hamner also said accounts of the accident said the truck had slowed to make a turn when the teen rode his bike into the vehicle.

“We don’t believe there was any violation on the part of the vehicle [driver],” Hamner said.

The truck was not going fast at the time of the mishap, he said.

“They were going very slow and coming to a stop,” Hamner said, and turning into an apartment complex. The truck was almost at a standstill when it was struck.

“The bicyclist was going the wrong way on the road, in the wrong direction, and struck the truck,” he said.

The police department’s review of the collision is preliminary, Hamner added.

Emergency crews from the Bainbridge Island Fire Department and Bainbridge police quickly responded to the crash, and traffic was slowed on High School Road for just a short time as the teenager was treated and taken to the fire department’s station on Madison Avenue for a medical airlift to Seattle.

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No fault found in bicycle-truck collision