A 12-year-old boy escaped serious injury after being struck by a car in the crosswalk at Saltonstall Street in Canandaigua Sunday night.
Police say the bicyclist was riding east to west when he activated the crosswalk caution light at Saltonstall Street at around 6 o’clock. A northbound car in the right lane on South Main Street stopped for the boy, but a northbound car in the left lane did not stop and struck the bicyclist in the crosswalk.
The boy suffered minor injuries and his parents refused medical transport.
The driver of the car, 36-year-old Michael Nixon, of Fairport, was ticketed for passing a stopped vehicle at a crosswalk.
The Canandaigua Police Department would like to remind motorists that pursuant to the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law 1151C, whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk or at any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle.
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