Boy, 12, Is Hit by Car Near School
The last day of school ended before it began Thursday for a 12-year-old seventh-grader, struck by a car and slightly injured while walking to Corona del Mar High School.
The boy’s mother had just dropped him off in front of the school, at 2101 Eastbluff Drive, when he stepped into the crosswalk at Alba Street, Newport Beach police said.
A 51-year-old Placentia man driving north on Eastbluff in a Chrysler Concorde hit the youth about 8:45 a.m., police said.
The student, whose name was not released, was taken to Western Medical Center-Santa Ana, where he was treated for scrapes and possible damage to the tendons in his left knee, police said. The accident remains under investigation.
Principal Donald Martin said he made a schoolwide announcement about the boy’s condition to calm classmates’ fears and squelch the rumors that had begun to circulate. School counselors stood by to help students upset by the incident.
“He seemed to be reacting well,” Martin said of the student. But “it’s not a good way to start your summer vacation.”
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