Child on bike hit by vehicle in Raleigh
A 12-year-old boy was hit by a vehicle while riding a bicycle on Millbrook Road between Sweetbriar and Cedarwood drives Tuesday night, Raleigh police said.
Posted — UpdatedInvestigators said the wreck happened at about 8:30 p.m. when a 1999 Toyota sedan driving east on East Millbrook Road hit the boy, who was riding his bicycle northbound on Sweetbriar Avenue.
Marshuan Williams was taken to WakeMed with serious injuries, police said. The driver, 40-year-old Mustapha Sowe, was not injured in the wreck.
Authorities have not charged Sowe in connection with the wreck, but Raleigh police did charge him with driving with a suspended license.
He was arrested following the incident on an unrelated arrest warrant for assault on a female.
Susan Bangura, Sowe's sister, said he called her very upset and told her that the child "came out of nowhere."
"He was crying. He was very scared, he just hit a little kid," she said. "You know, that's somebody's child. He has children of his own so I can imagine how scared he was."
No further information was immediately available. An investigation of the wreck is ongoing.
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