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Bicycle Accident Sends 12 Year Old to Hospital

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Washoe County Sheriff's Deputies are investigating a bicycle accident that sent a 12-year-old boy to the hospital.

Deputies say the boy was riding his bicycle in the 400 block of Rockwell Boulevard in Spanish Springs Sunday night.

It appears the boy attempted to grab onto his mom's pickup truck, lost his balance and struck his head on the pavement.

Deputies say emergency personnel responded and when they got there the boy was bleeding profusely from his head.

He was Careflighted to the hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.

The Sheriff's Office says it wants to remind everyone attaching to a vehicle on a roadway is prohibited because of the danger.

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