A 10-year-old Commerce boy was taken to Athens Regional Medical Center Thursday night after the bicycle he was riding was hit by a car on Carson Street.
According to the accident report filed by the Commerce Police Department, Jonathan Michael Fox, 275 Orchard Circle, was struck by a 2005 Chevrolet Cavalier at the intersection of Carson and Brookwood Avenue near the Commerce Recreation Department. The accident happened at about 5:45 p.m.
Jackson County EMS director Steve Nichols said the hospital would not release information on the boy’s condition.
The accident report said that the driver of the car reported that he was going down Carson Street when Fox “came across his lane of traffic on a bicycle.”
There were no witnesses and no charges. The officer said he was able to talk to the boy at the scene, get his name and contact the boy’s mother.
