Andover Man Hit By Truck While Riding Bike, One Year After Daughter Killed In Crosswalk

By Kristina Rex, CBS Boston

September 6, 2024

ANDOVER - Eric Olson says the irony is not lost on him. As the Andover man rode his bicycle Wednesday afternoon, he was hit by a Ford F-150 that ran a stop sign.

"Your entire life is in slow motion and for a moment you don't know what if you're going to make it out," he told WBZ.

Olson is bruised. His right hand is very swollen, and he has road rash on his right side. He says he was riding his bicycle down Woburn Street where it becomes Abbot Street at the Porter Road intersection when the pickup truck ran through a stop sign and turned left. Olson swerved to avoid the truck, but the truck clipped his back tire and sent him flying into a nearby yard.

Sidney Olson was struck and killed by a truck in a crosswalk in Andover in 2023/CBS Boston

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