Pasco: Dirt bike driver dies when he hits car
So many things wrong with this picture. His first bike is a 250? Am I the only one that thinks a teenaged boy should learn to ride and respect the bike on a 125, even if it is too small? This was a kid with a wild side.
Then the grandmother blames the wreck on Hernando County not having ANYWHERE to ride??? Hello, Crooms?? And it's been several years, but I saw several riding spots on the side of 19 in and around Spring Hill. As in, I saw people riding, and it was obviously a common spot. I was in SH to buy a dirt bike, and the kid who had it had plenty of places to ride - he was upgrading to something faster.
The accident occurred at 8:54 p.m. at the intersection of Pinehurst Drive and Spring Hill Drive near Piper Road. Lawson, a Central High School dropout, was driving his 2004 Honda 250cc motocross bike north on Pinehurst Drive when he collided broadside at the intersection with a four-door sedan traveling east on Spring Hill Drive.
Lawson and passenger Rapheal Navarro were thrown from the bike.
Jacob Myers, the 17-year-old driver of the 1997 Mercury Mystique Spree, continued east briefly before running off the right shoulder, striking a house, reports said.
Navarro, 22, a Spring Hill resident who recently moved from New York, was in serious condition Wednesday at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa. Myers and two passengers, both 17-year-old Spring Hill girls, suffered minor injuries. They were treated at Spring Hill Regional Hospital.
"Part of the reason this did happen is because there's no places to ride them in Hernando County," she said.