AMESBURY, MASS. (WHDH) - A 9-year-old was struck by a garbage truck on California Street in Amesbury Tuesday morning.
Fire Chief James Nolan confirmed that the Amesbury Fire Department responded after the child was struck by a trash truck that was collecting curbside waste in the city just before 9 a.m.
Officials say the boy was riding an electric bike when the crash happened.
“The boy was conscious and alert and was able to communicate with rescuers,” officials said in a statement. “Amesbury Fire Advanced Life Support ambulance transported the boy to Portsmouth Regional Hospital where he was last reported to be in stable condition. The boy is expected to be transferred to a Boston hospital for treatment of his injuries.”
The driver, operating a vehicle from G. Mello Corporation, was cooperative and remained on scene.
Ellie O’Leary lives just a few feet from where the incident happened.
“I heard a horn beep, and then screaming,” said O’Leary.
O’Leary says she found the boy wedged beneath the truck near the front of the vehicle between the front tire and a dumpster that had been lowered to pick up trash.
“It looked awful, when you could still see him under the truck,” said O’Leary. “But, I have heard since he has a broken leg, and he’s been [taken] to one of the Boston hospitals.
O’Leary says another neighbor called 9-1-1/ She took care of two other kids who had witnessed the accident.
Amesbury police are investigating, troopers from the state police accident reconstruction unit took measurements and photographed the truck.
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