A 12-year-old boy who was hit by a tractor trailer while riding a bicycle Thursday evening in north Whitfield County remains in critical condition in Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga where he was airlifted, according to a hospital spokesman.
The truck driver from Arizona has not been charged by the Georgia State Patrol that is investigating the accident, a dispatcher said. The boy was riding on East Broadacre Drive below North Whitfield Middle School when he continued into Cleveland Highway where he was hit. He was not wearing a helmet.
An official with the GSP declined to give the child’s name.
The incident happened at about 5 p.m. and the boy was airlifted from Hamilton Medical Center to Erlanger, according to Whitfield County 911.
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February 4, 2012
Boy hit by truck still critical
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Stem cell treatment regrows Whitfield man’s foot
Dr. Spencer Misner, left, chats with Bobby Rice, who received cutting-edge stem cell treatments to save his foot and leg after it was infected by a flesh-eating bacteria last year. (Matt Hamilton/The Daily Citizen)
By the time Dr. Spencer Misner had carved away the dead and diseased flesh from Bobby Rice’s right foot last year, little remained other than bones and tendons.
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