Paramedics with the Bellefontaine Fire Department and passersby tend to Hiemmler Dick, 7, of 412 W. Sandusky Ave., who reportedly rode into the path of a pickup truck operated by Seth Chambers, an off-duty Bellefontaine Police Department officer, around 5:40 p.m. Monday at Detroit Street and Chillicothe Avenue. A Bellefontaine squad transported the boy to Mary Rutan Hospital and later transferred him to Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus. Witnesses report the boy was westbound on the sidewalk and rode into the path of Mr. Chambers’ southbound pickup. There was nothing he could do to avoid impact with the boy, they report. Troopers of the Marysville Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol are investigating the crash. (EXAMINER PHOTO | REUBEN MEES)