Skateboarder run over after holding onto truck, in critical condition: Ontario police
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Witnesses said the girl was holding onto the back side of the pickup truck while skateboarding, when she lost her balance, fell to the ground and was run over.
A 16-year-old girl is fighting for her life in hospital after being run over by a pickup truck following what appears to have been a skateboarding accident in Uxbridge, Ont., north of Oshawa, police say.
The Durham Regional Police Service says witnesses reported that the teenager was skateboarding behind a silver Dodge pickup truck, holding onto the rear side of it, near the wheel in a parking lot on Main Street North when she lost her balance and fell to the ground.
At that point, police say she was run over by the truck. The driver of the truck remained at the scene, police say.
Police have not provided any further information about whether the driver was aware that the girl was holding onto the vehicle. Nor have they said whether charges are expected.
The girl was taken to a local hospital in critical condition before being moved to a Toronto-area trauma centre.
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