BREAKING NEWS

A 14-year-old Huntington Beach boy was hit and killed Wednesday when a pickup truck driver swerved across the road and knocked the boy off his bike, police said. The 20-year-old driver then crashed into a cinder-block wall and was seriously injured, authorities said.

Two teens were riding bikes west on Indianapolis Avenue in the bike lane at about 2:10 p.m., Huntington Beach police Lt. Dave Bunetta said. The eastbound Ford F-150 shot across the center line and hit the boy.

“For unknown reasons he tried to make a turn or swerved towards the intersection of Everglades [Lane],” Bunetta said.

The truck kept going, crashing head-on into the cinder-block wall of a home on the street, knocking over a palm tree and trapping its driver, a 20-year-old Huntington Beach man.

The boy was pronounced dead at the scene, while the driver was freed and rushed to Western Medical Center-Anaheim, which has a trauma center for major injuries, Bunetta said.

The driver was seriously injured and is a “trauma patient,” said Martha Werth, spokeswoman for the Huntington Beach Fire Department. Bunetta said only that the driver was awake when rescued.

Authorities would not give the name of the boy or the driver, and Bunetta said that only one of the boy’s parents had been reached as of Wednesday afternoon.

The decision on whether a crime was committed will take months of investigation, Bunetta said.