A 16-year-old boy has died after being hit by an SUV whereas using an electrical scooter late final month in Alexandria, Virginia.
Miguel Ángel Rivera was hit at Sanger Avenue and North Beauregard Street, on Saturday, Aug. 27, Alexandria police stated. He suffered life-threatening accidents and died on Monday.
Officers responded at about 10:20 p.m., and took the teenager to a hospital. According to the preliminary investigation, he was headed south on North Beauregard Street and attempting to show left onto Sanger Avenue when he was hit by a northbound Toyota RAV-4.
“[It was] so hard, seeing him in that hospital bed with so many medications, waiting for a miracle from God,” his mom, Yecelia Alvarado, advised our sister station Telemundo 44 in Spanish. “The surgery they did, they took off part of his skull to give his brain room because it was so swollen.”
Miguel Ángel was in the ICU for per week earlier than Alvarado acquired the information no mom desires to listen to.
“A 2:20 in the morning I got the news, the difficult news, that my son was passing away. They said he’d had a heart attack and that they were resuscitating him,” she stated. “I ran… got dressed and left for the hospital, but my son didn’t wait for me.”
Miguel Ángel’s household says he had left work and brought a scooter to get to his dad’s home, the place he spent the weekends. He had practically arrived when he was struck.
The teen was the third of 5 siblings in a now devastated Salvadoran household. He was going to start out the eleventh grade at Wakefield High School in Arlington and wished to be a mechanical engineer.
Virginia legislation permits individuals 14 years previous and as much as journey electrical scooters in the road or sidewalk, so long as they’re on the suitable, avoiding highways and obeying a 20 mph velocity restrict.
Alvarado, nevertheless, is now urging different dad and mom to maintain their youngsters off of the scooters.
“I tell these parents to not allow their children to keep using them because many accidents are happening,” she stated.
The driver remained on the scene after the collision. No info was launched on whether or not they might face prices.
“At this moment I feel a pain I won’t be able to overcome,” Alvarado stated. “My son had many plans for his life: go to college, be someone in this life. Unfortunately, at 16 years old, they cut his wings.”
UPDATE (Sept. 6, 2022, 5:10 p.m.): This story was up to date from a earlier model to make clear that the teenager was struck on August 27.