12-year-old injured in bicycle-car collision
A 12-year-old child was injured Friday evening after their bicycle collided with a car in Lakeview after the preteen failed to yield right of way at a stop sign. The driver’s side door shows significant damage from the collision.
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LAKEVIEW - A 12-year-old child was injured Friday evening after their bicycle collided with a car in Lakeview.
A press release from the Grant County Sheriff’s Office states that responders were called around 6 p.m. to Grant Street NW and Ephrata Avenue NW in Lakeview where a 12-year-old had been riding her bicycle and collided with a car.
The release goes on to state the child had been traveling south on Ephrata Avenue when the bike collided with the side of a westbound Subaru Forester driven by 53-year-old Terri Grendahl of Soap Lake.
First units arrived on the scene within three minutes, the release said, and the child was treated at the scene and then flown to Confluence Health-Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee via Life Flight. Grendahl was not injured.
Soap Lake Police Department, Grant County Fire District 7 and American Medical Response Grant County were also on the scene with GCSO.
The release stated that GCSO Deputies reviewed video captured on a nearby home’s surveillance camera and could see the child failed to stop at the stop sign and collided with the Subaru.
GCSO spokesman Kyle Foreman explained that due to the child’s age, the subsequent lack of a driver’s license and that the child was injured, charges were not filed by law enforcement but that civil litigation is a possibility if Grendahl chooses to.
Foreman was not able to confirm whether or not the child had been wearing a helmet or where the child’s parents were at the time of the collision.
Rebecca Pettingill may be reached at rpettingill@columbiabasinherald.com.