Emergency responders rushed a 14-year-old New Canaan High School student to Norwalk Hospital early Monday after he was struck by a car while crossing Farm Road, officials say.
He suffered “possible leg injuries” when an eastbound motor vehicle struck him at about 7:29 a.m., according to Sgt. Carol Ogrinc of the New Canaan Police Department. The teen was not in a crosswalk, Ogrinc said.
The driver, a 49-year-old New Canaan man in a 2008 Toyota Solara convertible, stopped and stayed on scene until the New Canaan Volunteer Ambulance Corps could get there and take the teen to the hospital, Ogrinc said in a press release.
Police said at Monday’s weekly briefing with local media that the teen was a passenger in a line of cars that normally forms in the mornings between the light at Farm and South and the stop sign between the high school and South School. Often, Ogrinc said, students hop out of cars waiting in that line of traffic and make their way, across the eastbound traffic lane, toward the high school campus. The teen apparently hopped out of the car driving him, about 50 to 60 feet shy of the stop sign, and began running across the road when the left-front side of the car struck him in the right side, police said.