An 11-year-old boy has been upgraded from critical to fair condition after injuring his head in a bicycle accident in Greenwich on Saturday morning.
Three youths from the Cos Cob section of Greenwich were riding their bicycles in Montgomery Pinetum Park, a 91-acre public park in that part of town, at about 8:30 a.m. when the 11-year-old boy lost control of his bike, veered off the trail he was riding on and fell, Greenwich police said. His head struck a rock.
One of the boy's friends called 911 on his cell phone and Greenwich police and Emergency Medical Service personnel responded, police said. It didn't take emergency responders long to find the injured boy in the park and he was transported to Stamford Hospital Emergency to be treated for a severe head injury. He wasn't wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, police said.
The boy was later transferred to Yale-New Haven Hospital's intensive care unit
Police are not releasing the name of the juveniles and police said that "a parent and/or guardian of the three involved youths have been notified."
Greenwich Police Department's traffic division is investigating the accident.
