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The Bixby Elementary School sixth-grader remained in intensive care, they said.
“We are all praying for a positive outcome,” one of them told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
The Bogota Baseball Organization is having a fundraiser for the boy’s family at its snack bar this Saturday.
The Bogota school district has counselors available this week for students and staff and postponed yesterday’s statewide testing of grades 5-8 “due to the potential emotional impact on students,” Schools Superintendent Letizia Pantoliano said.
The tests were set to resume today. Makeup tests from yesterday will be given Friday, the superintendent said in a letter to parents.
The boy sustained a fractured skull and broken leg, among other injuries, after he was struck in the crosswalk at the West Main Street extension of Oscar E. Olsen Park by a 2012 Toyota Corolla driven by a 73-year-old Teaneck woman.
He was in uniform and headed to the game with his parents as they parked their car nearby, witnesses said.
Both he and the driver stopped momentarily, not knowing which would go first. Then both proceeded.
No summonses were issued.
A short time earlier, an 11-year-old bicyclist sustained minor injuries after being struck at Queen Anne Road and Elmwood Avenue after emerging from a park there. He was taken to Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck.
The driver, a 29-year-old woman from North Bergen, swerved to avoid the boy, who was knocked down after being sideswiped by the car’s mirror, police told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. He sustained some scrapes and bruises but was otherwise OK, they said.
West Main Street entrance to Oscar E. Olsen Park
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