Girl airlifted after bicycle crash

A 10-year-old girl was flown to a Wichita trauma center Friday after suffering a leg injury in a bicycle accident in Hillsboro.

According to ambulance director Mickey Price, the girl appeared to have suffered a possible fractured leg and penetrating trauma after being impaled by part of the bicycle. Nothing indicated another vehicle was involved, Price said.

She initially was taken to Hillsboro Community Hospital before being flown by helicopter to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. The helicopter was requested because penetrating trauma above the knee meets Level I trauma criteria.

Ambulance officials had not received an update on the girl’s condition as of Tuesday.