PORT ANGELES — A 22-year-old Port Angeles skateboarder who was hit by a pickup Tuesday was in stable condition in the intensive care unit at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle on Wednesday.
Arthur Gagnon suffered a head injury after he rode his skateboard into an intersection at West Lauridsen Boulevard and C Street and was struck by a mirror on a passing utility truck at about 6:15 p.m. Tuesday.
“He’s on a ventilator and heavily sedated,” said his mother, Barbara Gagnon of Neah Bay.
She said doctors said her son has bleeding in his brain and that they expect his brain to swell in coming days.
Harborview personnel said he was listed in stable condition.
His mother flew home from a trip to Los Angeles after she was told of her son’s injury and has been near his bedside, she said.
Police said witnesses told them Gagnon was wearing headphones and “charged into the street” on his skateboard just as the truck, a private utility truck, approached.
The driver was not cited.
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