A teenager remains in hospital after being thrown from a vehicle in the state’s Riverina region yesterday, NSW Police say.
Just after 8pm yesterday, a teenage boy was driving a Holden Colorado utility along Leonard Road, Hanwood, (about five kilometres south of Griffith) with a teen passenger, both aged 17.
The vehicle stopped outside the front of a home on the same street.
Police have been told a third teenage boy approached the vehicle and stood on the side step of the car, when the car took off, causing the boy to fall from the utility.
He was treated at the scene by NSW Ambulance Paramedics before being taken to Griffith Hospital with head injuries.
The boy was placed in an induced coma and airlifted to St George Hospital; his condition remains as stable.
The driver was also treated at the scene for shock, before being taken to hospital for mandatory blood and urine tests.
Officers attached to Griffith Local Area Command established a crime scene and commenced an investigation.
Inquiries are continuing.
Police are urging anyone with information in relation to this incident to call Crime Stoppers.
