Police ticket 11-year-old boy hit by car

By T.J. Aulds, The Daily News
Galveston Daily News
Oct. 07, 2011

TEXAS CITY — Noah Popovich, 11, and his friends were walking to school last week when he was struck from behind by a passing SUV. After police were called to investigate, Popovich, who suffered injuries that kept him from school for a week, was issued a ticket for walking on the wrong side of the road.

The citation outraged Popovich’s mother, Ashley Falks, who thinks her son not only didn’t deserve the ticket, but that the 18-year-old driver who struck him should face a harsher punishment. The woman driving the vehicle that hit Popovich was cited for driving with an expired driver’s license, Texas City Police said.

[...]“I had no idea what had happened to him, but when he got home, that’s when we called police,” Falks said.

Police came out, and after questioning the driver and Popovich, they returned Sunday. That’s when, to Falks’ astonishment, her son was ticketed for walking on the wrong side of the road.

“I couldn’t believe my son was the one ticketed when he was the one injured,” Falks said.

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