Overview
- Police and witnesses say two adolescents on the same mini‑motorized bike collided with an SUV after likely running a stop sign at Longview and Weldon avenues.
- The riders, ages 13 and 14, were not wearing helmets and were taken to hospital with non‑life‑threatening injuries.
- A neighbor who saw the crash described a loud impact that dented the side of the SUV and said the driver stayed at the scene and showed no signs of impairment.
- Several neighbors report repeatedly seeing the same group of teens speed through the area and ignore stop signs, which residents say has raised safety concerns.
- Phoenix police are treating the collision as an active investigation and the crash forms part of a recent local pattern of serious vehicle collisions that investigators have been reviewing for causes such as speed and impairment.