By Howard Packowitz
BLOOMINGTON – A Bloomington boy’s parents remain at his bedside at an Urbana hospital almost three weeks after he suffered serious head injuries in a traffic accident on the city’s west side.
A car struck bicycle rider Angelo Seymon, 10, just before dark Labor Day evening at Allin Street and Oakland Avenue.
Police aid the car’s driver cooperated with investigators, and was not ticketed for the crash.
The Irving Elementary School fifth grader is in stable condition, but has brain damage and remains in a medically-induced coma at Carle Foundation Hospital, according to family friend Constance Davidson, who’s in touch with the boy’s mother Carlisa Benton and grandmother Yolanda Hickman.
Eventually, Davidson said Angelo faces the prospect of lengthy rehabilitation in Chicago.
Davidson has set up a GoFundMe page to help the boy’s parents because they’re been unable to work while Angelo is hospitalized.
Irving Principal Messina Lambert issued a statement, saying the school’s community partner Living Stone Communities Church was raising funds to provide Angelo’s family with gift cards for food and gas.
Lambert says she’s partnered with people who work with Angelo’s mother, Carlisa Benton at Heartland Head Start to donate other items to help the family.
As for Angelo’s classmates, Lambert says a social worker was available to help comfort them. The kids also made get-well cards for the boy.
Another link to the GoFundMe page can be found below.
Howard Packowitz can be reached at [email protected]
