LEBANON, Ind. – A 15-year-old Lebanon teen is recovering after being hit by a car earlier this week.
“I remember hearing his tires squeal, and then I remember coming in my house and telling my mom I got hit by a car,” said 15-year-old Michael Kellogg.
Michael was riding his bike home from the gym around 7 p.m. Tuesday night on West Camp Street near State Road 39 in Lebanon.
That’s when he said a car hit him from behind and he went flying.
“I have road rash, all up my abdomen, up on my back and then I have road rash on my right shoulder and right arm and I have a cut in my head with a staple in it,” said Michael.
Michael said the man and the woman in the car put him in their vehicle, took him home and then drove off without calling the police.
Family members ended up driving Kellogg to the Hospital.
His parents said what the driver did was heartless.
“You don’t just dump a child off at their house injured and bleeding and not inform the authorities. It’s not ok,” said Michael’s father, Sydney Kellogg.
“Clearly he had a concussion and stuff and he could have given any address and they didn’t even knock on the door and they just left. I don’t see how any decent human being could do that,” said Michael’s mother, Chantal Kellogg.
Michael was hoping to wrestle this year for his high school. He said his injuries likely won’t let him do that. But his parents said Michael has a fighting spirit, one that’s already beaten cancer.
“It turned out it was called a giant cell fibroblastoma and they said he was the 26th in the U.S. to ever have it,” said Chantal Kellogg. “So it’s a lot, he’s been through a lot.”
Lebanon Police said they have no updates in the investigation and no vehicle description.
The family just wants whoever was behind this to come forward.
“They just dropped him off at the back door like if someone hit your dog in the road and just took off. It’s just crazy and heartbreaking because I could never do that to anybody, don’t understand that mentality,” said Chantal Kellogg.
Anyone with information related to the incident is asked to contact the Lebanon Police Department at 765-482-8836.
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