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Last updated on Thursday, July 24, 2014
(WINONA LAKE) - Police in northern Indiana say a 10-year-old boy died after being hit by a pickup truck while riding a bicycle.
The Winona Lake Police Department says Kurt Engler of Winona Lake died Tuesday at an Indianapolis hospital where he was flown after being hit the night before.
The Times-Union of Warsaw reports (http://bit.ly/1p9PaRz) the truck driver and witnesses told police that the boy didn't obey a stop sign and rode into the truck's path in the town about 40 miles northwest of Fort Wayne.
Police say an off-duty firefighter and police officer gave first aid to the boy before emergency crews arrived at the scene.
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