Skateboarding behind car leads to injury

Thursday, May 21, 2009 3:00 AM |

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Staff reportA skateboarding teenager was injured Wednesday while hanging onto a car on Neel Road.

Dillon Scott Kluttz of 180 Regency Road was taken to Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast shortly after the 3 p.m. incident. Trooper C.J. Doty of the N.C. Highway Patrol said Kluttz's injuries included a lot of road rash. The trooper said Kluttz was later transported to a Charlotte hospital, but a spokesman there had no information on him.

Doty said the Highway Patrol is looking for the car that was pulling Kluttz along when he he took a spill and rolled along the road in front of Neel Road Baptist Church.

Doty said a witness who arrived on the scene as the mishap occurred said the teen was being pulled by a car going 35 to 40 mph. When he fell off the skateboard, the car continued for a short distance, stopped for a while and then left.

The witness described the car as small and dark-colored.

Doty said it is unlikely the driver didn't know the 5-foot-11-inch skateboarder was hanging on to the back of the car.

Anyone with information on the accident is asked to call the N.C. Highway Patrol Salisbury district office at 704-639-7574.

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