[November 20, 2009] Boy, 12, struck during street race: Cops probe Lowell hit-run Tweet Nov 20, 2009 (Boston Herald - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- The stepfather of a Lowell boy mowed down by a street racer who ran a red light Wednesday afternoon said he was shocked the driver bolted from the accident scene and then tried to get his smashed-up car fixed. Danny Savanhmixay said investigators told him they found the Honda Acura they believe struck his 12-year-old stepson, Kelvin, at an autobody shop in Methuen. "How do you just run somebody over and take off?" asked Savanhmixay, 36. "He tried to get it fixed. Thank God for the owner of the shop. Someone had a conscience. He's probably the one that called the cops." Kelvin, a sixth-grader at the Kathryn P. Stoklosa Middle School in Lowell, is in fair condition in the intensive care unit at Children's Hospital Boston, a hospital spokeswoman said. Police Superintendent Kenneth Lavallee said cops had recovered the vehicle that struck the boy, but did not provide specifics about the car or where in Methuen authorities found it. Police still are looking for the second vehicle. "They should be ashamed of themselves," Lavallee said. "I just can't imagine why they would first of all, engage in drag racing behavior, which is extremely dangerous. On top of that, to strike this young man and leave the scene, leave him there for dead, was inexplicable." Kelvin was crossing Veterans of Foreign Wars Highway in the crosswalk at Mammoth Road when he was struck about 2:30 p.m. by one of two vehicles that ran a red light during a street race. The car that struck the boy immediately took off. The second car, described as a black vehicle, stopped briefly and the driver exchanged words with witness Barbara Winegar, who yelled to him. "I said, 'You need to come back here. You just hit this kid.' And he said, 'I didn't hit anybody,' " Winegar said. "He said (expletive) to me. I was mortified and then he closed his door and just took off." Winegar's son, Stephen, 18, tended to Kelvin until an ambulance arrived. "He didn't say one word. His eyes were kind of open. They were kind of rolling back in his head," Stephen Winegar said. Winegar described the stretch of road as a nighttime "Indianapolis speedway." Lavallee said police have issued 88 traffic citations in that area in 2009. Kelvin was awake yesterday after undergoing surgery to remove a "foreign object" from his left leg, his stepfather said. The boy experienced internal bleeding and has head and neck injuries. His mother, Dao, was at his bedside. To see more of the Boston Herald or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.bostonherald.com. Copyright (c) 2009, Boston Herald Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, email [email protected], call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]