WOODBURY — A 16-year-old girl was taken by medical helicopter to a trauma center at Altoona Regional Medical Center after she was struck by a vehicle Sunday afternoon on Route 1017.
State police in Blair County identified the injured girl as Virginia A. Zimmerman of Martinsburg.
The girl rode her bicycle from her driveway into the path of a Chrysler Voyager driven by Marian G. Evans, 70, of Woodbury, police said.
The Voyager struck the rear of the bike, which ended up 142 feet from the driveway, police said. The girl was not wearing a helmet, they said.
Evans was taken to the hospital for treatment of shock, police said.
The hospital had no report on Zimmerman on Tuesday.
In other police-related news:
• Frances V. Watson, 66, of Garrett, recently was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Johnstown to five years probation and ordered to pay restitution for misappropriation of government money.
Watson was convicted of receiving money for Social Security benefits, food stamps and low-income home energy assistance benefits to which she was not entitled. The misappropriation occurred between 2000 and 2008.
• A Stoystown man faces charges after state police said he crashed his car, damaged property and then fled early Saturday.
Robert T. Rigo, 45, was traveling on Welsh Hill Road in Somerset Township just before 7 a.m. when his Pontiac Grand Am ran off the road and hit shrubbery, a utility pole and a Chrysler minivan, police said.
Rigo left prior to the arrival of emergency personnel, police said. The road was closed for about an hour.
• Somerset Borough police are searching for whomever caused criminal mischief at a home in the 700 block of North Edgewood Avenue.
Someone broke off several branches from a pine tree and started a small fire in the yard on Saturday, police said.
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