Car hits marching band


May 4, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Associated Press

CLEVELAND

A teenager is in critical condition after a car plowed into a high school band about to march in a parade in Cleveland.

The accident Sunday afternoon injured two other students and a band member’s mother. Witnesses say the 67-year-old driver was pulling into a handicapped-parking spot when the car jumped the curb and hit the students from James Ford Rhodes High School.

A spokeswoman for Cleveland MetroHealth Medical Center says 17-year-old Justin Otis is in critical condition. Witnesses say he was dragged about 10 feet before the car stopped.

Cleveland Congressman Dennis Kucinich (koo-SIN’-ich) was nearby to take part in the parade and says he saw the boy pinned by the car.

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