Police car runs over 14-year-old
Published: 6 Aug 09 12:07 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/21136/20090806/
A police vehicle ran over a 14-year-old boy in Karlskrona in southeastern Sweden on Wednesday night as the boy was fleeing the scene of a robbery.
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Police received a report about the robbery of a kiosk on Idrottsvägen from a civilian colleague on the way home. Two patrol cars were dispatched and when they arrived on the scene, one of the cars ran over the 14-year-old.
He and his 15-year-old friend were trying to run from the police after the robbery when the accident occurred.
The incident is being investigated by Lars Karsten, commander at the Skåne police, who believes that the boy was running towards the police car when he was run over.
According to Blekinge Läns Tidning newspaper, the 14-year-old slipped and fell to the ground.
The boy was stuck under the car after the accident and the fire department was called. The police car had to be raised with air skates before the boy could be taken out and transported to the hospital by ambulance.
Fire chief Kent Hoff, who was at the scene of the accident, said that the boy was laying right in front of the car’s front tyre.
“He had burned himself on the catalytic converter, one shoulder was dislocated and he was scraped up. But he was conscious,” Hoff told TT.
The policeman who ran over the boy was taken care of by the police in the other car at the scene.
“They said that he was in shock and was to receive crisis counseling. I didn’t speak with him, he was already gone when we arrived,” Hoff said.
The 15-year-old boy who was also involved in the robbery was driven home to his parents.
A forensics investigation will be conducted on the police car.
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HAHAHAHA...what a joke
Give me your details/info and I'll tell you where your folks emigrated from.
I don't blame the policeman who is in shock, if you've not experienced injuring someone (or a certain event) before, it can be a be shock when it happens.
I see nothing wrong with the parents of the 15 year old taking him away, it doesn't mean he is free, he can still be sentenced accordingly.
The fact that the parents were able to turn up and pick him up shows some level of family stability and guidance.
Immigration/emigration is as old as man, it can be harmful or beneficial; people just like to be myopic and bear grudge against recent immigrants or people of different ethnicities.
Playmaker, the scare tactic is a great idea but there are other issues to consider like local laws, political correctness/human rights since he's 15, night staffing at the police station (I lived in Karlskrona & some nearby towns are so small they don't have resident police) etc and in Sweden, a good guarantor seems to facilitate a lot of things.
Anyway, he is 15 which is the age of sexual consent, he really should have spent the night in the cell.
Where is the logic in this?
Btw, he was 14 not 15 (read the headline)...
Hope I was able to clarify myself?
It was a white, 'ethnic' Swedish kid called Kalle (or similar - the name has been changed by the paper as it is standard practice for the press not to name suspects of any crime, particularly not if they are underage):
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article5637178.ab
Now take your opinions and stick them right up your racist arses.