from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Oak Creek boy killed in cycle crash
10-year-old thrown off when motorcycle runs into rear of car
By RACHEL McCORMICK
Last Updated: Aug. 30, 2003
A 10-year-old boy was killed
Saturday on Milwaukee's south side after being thrown from the back of a
motorcycle, authorities said.
The boy was a passenger on a motorcycle
operated by an adult male. The motorcycle apparently rear-ended a car, and the
boy and the man were thrown from the cycle at Edgerton and S. Howell avenues
about 5 p.m., Milwaukee police Sgt. Curtis Cook said.
Police declined to
release the relationship of the boy and man and where they were from, but the
Milwaukee County medical examiner's office said the boy was from Oak Creek and
the man operating the motorcycle was the boy's father.
The boy, whose
name was not being released pending family notification, was pronounced dead at
the scene, Cook said.
According to the medical examiner, the boy was
wearing a helmet while on the motorcycle, but it fell off when the child was
thrown from the cycle and hit the pavement.
The boy's father, who is in
his 40s, was taken to Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Wauwatosa and
appears to be in serious condition with head trauma, according to Cook. The
preliminary investigation shows that the man was not wearing a
helmet.
It was unclear if the boy and his father were in Milwaukee for
the Harley-Davidson 100th Anniversary Celebration, according to
police.
In another motorcycle accident, a female passenger on a
motorcycle was flown by Flight for Life helicopter to Froedtert with severe
head injures after a three-wheel motorcycle on which she was riding blew a tire
in the Town of Yorkville in Racine County, the Racine County Sheriff's
Department reported.
According to the Sheriff's Department, the
motorcycle was traveling south on I-94 just south of Highway 20 about 7 p.m.
Saturday when the left rear tire of the motorcycle blew out, causing the
motorcycle to strike the median wall, where the woman and the motorcycle driver
were both ejected from the motorcycle and landed on the northbound side of the
barrier.
Neither was wearing a helmet, the Sheriff's Department
said.
The driver was taken to All Saints-St. Mary's Medical Center in
Racine with a broken leg and other injuries, the Sheriff's Department said. The
motorcycle is registered in Iowa, deputies said.