A 16-year-old New Hope High School junior was injured Monday when he swerved to miss another student”s truck, flipping his own.
Jeremy Brooks was eastbound on Oswalt Road near New Hope at about 3 p.m. when 17-year-old Chris Ross, also a New Hope junior, backed his mother”s pickup truck out of Molly Lane.
Brooks” blue 1984 Chevrolet Scottsdale hit the rear passenger”s-side bumper of Ross” white 1999 Chevrolet S10 before flipping in a roadside ditch.
Brooks was taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle for bruises and lacerations to his face, said his brother, Shane Brooks.
Ross and his passenger, 17-year-old Brandon Johnson, also a New Hope junior, were uninjured.
They were on their way to Ross” house when they decided to go a different route, said Ross, who is in the Columbus Police Explorers program.
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