A 16-year-old Ceres boy suffered major injuries Saturday afternoon when he was riding on the lowered tailgate of a pickup truck and fell when the driver accelerated, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The incident occurred in the parking lot of Hidahl Elementary School on East Redwood Road south of Ceres. According to a Modesto Fire Department incident summary, an engine crew was dispatched and found the youth “with traumatic injuries and in cardiac arrest.”
An American Medical Response ambulance crew provided patient care while the teen was taken to Doctors Medical Center, said CHP Modesto spokesperson Officer Tom Olsen. From DMC, the boy was taken to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland. “We do not know his status as of today,” Olsen told The Bee on Sunday morning…