The driver of the car that, on Wednesday night, ran over and seriously injured a 17-year-old cyclist appears shocked. in the area of Harilaou, in Thessaloniki.
The incident took place shortly after 10 pm, at the junction of Papanastasiou and G. Angelou streets. It seems that the 17-year-old cyclist was crossing the road at the time and, under unknown circumstances, ended up on the wheels of the car, resulting in serious injuries. The minor was intubated and taken to the Hippocrates hospital and so far his condition is described by the doctors as critical, but stable.
According to information, the driver claims that she did not understand exactly how the traffic accident happened and that she herself was moving on Papanastasiou Street and turned to Giannis Angelou. “I didn’t see where the cyclist came from. “I fell asleep in the middle of the crossing and suddenly I saw him on the ground,” he said.
At the same time, a witness to the serious traffic accident describes the first moments that followed, when the 17-year-old found himself under the wheels of the car. “We heard voices and as soon as I got out, I saw the car that was on the bend and under the wheels was the child. The neighbor said that only his legs were visible. Police cars and three ambulances came and the fire department lifted the car to get the child out. When they lifted the child he waved his hand and someone shouted “he is breathing”. According to what they said later, he must have stepped on him twice,” said a witness.
According to the resident of the area, this was not the first time that there has been a traffic accident at this crossing as drivers, despite the prohibitionthey still turn illegally from the main road to the vertical road.
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