A LOCAL TEEN IS ³
RECOVERING FROM SERIOUS ³
³ INJURIES SATURDAY NIGHT. ³
³
³ THE 14-YEAR-OLD BOY WAS ³
³ RUNNING ACROSS 23RD STREET ³
³ LAST NIGHT AROUND 11 P-M, ³
³ TRYING TO GET TO A SUBWAY ³
³ RESTAURANT ON THE CORNER OF ³
³ 23RD AND MICHIGAN AVENUE. ³
³ A BLUE MUSTANG STRUCK THE ³
³ TEEN AS HE RAN INTO THE ³
³ STREET. ³
³ PANAMA CITY POLICE ³
³ SAY THE BOY SUFFERED SOME ³
³ LEG INJURIES, AND POSSIBLY ³
³ INTERNAL INJURIES AS ³
³ WELL.
BUT THEY SAY HE WAS ³
³ COHERENT AT THE SCENE. POLICE SAY THE ACCIDENT ³
COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED. ³
³
³ ³
³ "There was a traffic light and cross walk 50 ³
³feet from where he ³
crossed...instead ran ³
³ across the street when the light turned green, and was struck by the car," Seargant Robert Colbert says. ³
³
³ THE DRIVER, A YOUNG ³
³ WOMAN FROM LYNN HAVEN, WAS ³
³ ALSO TRANSPORTED TO A LOCAL ³
³ HOSPITAL BECAUSE GLASS FROM ³
³ THE WINDSHIELD FLEW INTO HER ³
³ FACE.