VIDEO: A West Valley teen who was hit by a truck on his way to school reunited with the first responders who saved him on that August day when he nearly lost his life. In August, ABC15 reported on a truck hitting a 13-year-old on his way to school near 67th Avenue and Deer Valley Road.
Zeyad Elsuhimi, now 14, was the boy pinned under the pickup truck. When firefighters and paramedics arrived on scene, he was in critical condition. “He has no pulse, and he’s not breathing, and when you look at him, this kid’s head was purple,” Glendale Fire Captain Gregg Lentz told ABC15.
“The first thing we initially saw was that front left driver side tire was directly over his chest and all that weight was pinned on top of him,” firefighter-paramedic Aaron McMurdie said. Crews deployed a jack, spreaders, and cribbing to lift the truck off Elsuhimi.
