Boy, 11, OK After Truck Runs Over His Head By Associated Press
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MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. - An 11-year-old boy had a lingering headache two days after a pickup truck ran over his head. "All I remember about it was that when the truck ran over my head, I could hear my bones crack," Cameron Schuette said Tuesday.
Cameron, a 5th-grader and his 13-year-old brother Tyler were helping their grandfather chop and load wood on Sunday. The boys were sitting on the tailgate of their grandfather's truck when he began backing down his gravel driveway and Cameron either fell or jumped off.
Ron Shurley said he at first thought he ran over a piece of wood until he got out of the truck and saw Cameron lying face down in the gravel. Then he stood up and ran into the house, Shurley said.
"He didn't look too worse for wear," Shurley said. "He was just saying he had a headache."
After spotting blood running out of the boy's ear, Shurley drove him to the hospital. Cameron was then transferred to another hospital, where tests revealed he had a slight hairline skull fracture. He also had roadrash on his neck and face, a black eye and a laceration on his ear canal.
He was released from the hospital Tuesday, suffering a stiff neck and a headache.
His mother, Shannon England, said the accident showed the dangers of letting children ride on tailgates. She said it was a "miracle" that Cameron had not been injured worse.
"Maybe he has an exceptionally hard head," Shurley said.
They're showing a video on MSNBC of a mother and two kids crossing a street when an old lady drives her car at a very high speed into them, smashing them into a wall!!!
It looks horrible, and yet amazingly NO ONE was seriously hurt!
Uuuuhhh.... let's review... You just ran over a kid's head with your truck. Since he doesn't have gray matter protruding, you pretty well assume he's okay until you spy a speck of blood in his ear? WTF? How 'bout call an ambulance immediately! I'm just stunned.
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Mema, it's the same people who thought they had run over a peice of wood. I would guess their heads are just as hard as the boy's. What I want to know is why the other kid in the back of the truck wasn't freaking out.
Mema, it's the same people who thought they had run over a peice of wood. I would guess their heads are just as hard as the boy's. What I want to know is why the other kid in the back of the truck wasn't freaking out.
Does tend to make you wonder if that family tree has the requisite number of forks in it, doesn't it.
I saw the thing about the 79 yr old lady who hit those people. It's amazing no one got killed. I'm glad she turned herself in, but still... I can't imagine sitting there after doing that thinking, "OOPSIE! Oh well... BYGONES! Things to do... Peace out!"
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Okay. I admit it. I watched a little bit of the news this morning. I saw the video of the "oopsie". It is a wonder that nobody was killed. It gave me the shivers though. I had to change it off the news. I turned it to "Buffy, The Vampire Slayer" instead. At least I know THAT'S not real.
