Eugene police responded to two motor vehicle accidents on Tuesday, one involving a 14-year-old on a bicycle and another involving a pedestrian who may have been intoxicated when he walked onto a busy street and had to be rescued after being pinned beneath a car.
The 14-year-old boy was not wearing a helmet when his bicycle was struck about 5:50 p.m. as he was pedaling along Hunsaker Drive near River Road in west Eugene, police Sgt. Kevin McCormick said at the scene.
The boy appeared to suffer only scrapes and bruises, but was taken by ambulance to PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield, McCormick said.
The boy apparently was riding his bike west on Hunsaker Lane when he was struck by a silver Volkswagen Passat that was turning onto River Road from Hunsaker Lane.
It was not immediately known whether the woman driving the Passat would be cited in connection with the accident, McCormick said.
Earlier in the day, police closed a portion of West Seventh Avenue to traffic for several hours after a pedestrian believed to be intoxicated was hit by two vehicles.
The crash just west of Madison Street was reported at 2:07 p.m.
Preliminary information indicated that an intoxicated male in his 30s ran across the arterial and was clipped by a vehicle in the second lane, then went down under a vehicle in the first lane, where he was pinned, police said.
The second vehicle, a Toyota Avalon, was driven by an out-of-town woman in her 60s, police said.
A witness brought a floor jack over to help raise the vehicle in an attempt to get the pedestrian out from under the vehicle.
Eugene police officers and several passers-by were able to lift the vehicle enough to pull the victim out from under the car, police said.
The pedestrian was transported by ambulance to McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in Springfield, where he was undergoing treatment.
The extent of his injuries was not immediately known.
Police said the department didn’t expect to release the names of the people involved before today.
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