An 11-year-old boy is in critical condition after being hit by a car Wednesday morning in Aurora.
Police said two boys, both 11, were crossing East Mississippi Avenue at South Uvalda Street on their way to Aurora Hills Middle School when one was hit.
The accident happened just before 9 a.m., and the boy who was hit suffered life-threatening injuries, according to the Aurora Police Department. The second boy was not injured.
The boys were halfway across the avenue, police said, when the signal “began to change.” To cross, the boys ran, safely passing two vehicles in two westbound lanes. A brown Buick sedan, driven by Sandra P. Martinez, 21, in the third westbound lane advanced when the light turned green. Martinez didn’t see the boys crossing, police said, and the one boy was hit.
The section of Mississippi where the boys crossed is wide and busy, with three through lanes in each direction, east and west, and single-vehicle turn lanes north and south onto Uvalda.
