Teenage Girl Struck While Riding Bike In Lowell, Flown To Hospital
LOWELL (CBS) -- A teenage girl from Lowell is in the hospital with serious injuries after she was hit by a car while riding a bicycle on Sunday.
It was a traumatic scene for young witnesses in the neighborhood.
"She was coming down the hill on a bike, a car was coming this way and she flipped over the windshield," said witness Ethan Chea.
Barrington Street is a hill where neighbors say bike riders can pick up speed.
The girl and the driver on South Whipple Street apparently never saw each other coming.
Witnesses say she turned left at the bottom of the hill into the path of the oncoming car.
Khristion Gouveia, 15, was in the back seat of the white sedan, with his sister's boyfriend at the wheel.
"I heard my sister's boyfriend say 'Oh my God' and that's when everything flashed," he said.
Glass shattered the passengers, and the girl suffered serious injuries.
The condition of the bicycle and the car an indication of how hard the impact was.
"She couldn't move at all. Every time they tried to move her she would scream," said witness Robin Carlson.
Neighbors say the hill can make it an attraction for bike riders in the neighborhood. But what happened is an image Khristion Gouveia won't soon be able to forget.
"I didn't want to get out of the car, I thought it was a dream," he said.