GREENFIELD – “At least I’m not dead,” said Eugene Walden of Greenfield, who was hit by a car while riding his bicycle near the police station Wednesday afternoon at the corner of High and Haywood streets.
According to Walden, he was turning from Haywood Street onto High Street after noon, when a car that he said was stopped when he began to turn, struck and dragged him about 10 feet into the intersection, bent the bike and broke the axle of a cart he was pulling.
“I was yelling ‘I’m underneath your car,’” he said, while sitting the yard of his sister’s house a few hours later. “I was under the front end — bicycle, cart and all. It was a mangled mess.”
Walden said when the car stopped, he told the driver his right leg hurt. He also said he told the driver that other than pain in his leg, he was fine. After waiting to make sure he was OK, he continued, the car drove away.
“I’m limping but I’m living,” he said, adding that he’s staying with his sister until he recovers full use of his leg.
A little after 5 p.m., the back wheel of Walden’s bike was still bent and the axle of his cart was still broken.
After the accident, Walden said a police officer took him to the hospital, where he had X-rays done on his leg before being released.
Police could not be reached for comment and a report on the accident was not available.