Tuesday, March 02, 1999
Boy on bike critically injured by hit-skip truck
Suspect halted after I-71 chase
BY WILLIAM A. WEATHERS
The Cincinnati Enquirer
SYMMES TOWNSHIP — A hit-skip driver with five drunken-driving convictions struck a 12-year-old bicyclist Monday night and led police on a 13-mile high-speed pursuit on Interstate 71 before stop sticks deflated a tire on the pickup.
The Hamilton County sheriff's department charged the driver, Mark C. Walters, 36, of East Main Street in Lebanon, with aggravated vehicular assault and fleeing and eluding.
The bicyclist, Josh Kostreva of Symmes Township, was transported by Miami Valley Air Care to Children's Hospital Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition.
The sheriff's department said alcohol may be a factor in the incident, which began about 6:35 p.m. on Fields Ertel Road. An eastbound 1982 Chevrolet pickup went off the right side of the roadway and struck the boy as he rode a bicycle.
A deputy witnessed the crash and tried to halt the pickup, but the driver refused to stop, the sheriff's department said. He fled the area at a high rate of speed and drove onto southbound I-71 with the deputy in pursuit.
Near the intersection of I-71 and Ronald Reagan Highway, police deployed stop sticks across the interstate. When the pickup drove over the devices, a front tire was damaged, the sheriff's department said.
Due to the tire damage, the driver stopped the pickup near the Red Bank Road exit, where he was arrested.
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