Larry Dye has a request for the person who ran over his son and drove off, leaving the boy on a Commerce City street Tuesday with a skull fracture and other injuries:
“He needs to take responsibility. . . . We all make mistakes, but step up,” Dye, 45, said Wednesday outside Children’s Hospital.
His son, D’Artagnan Alexander Dye, 13, is in a medically induced coma, his condition critical.
Dye had a message for Commerce City officials too: The accident, on Oneida Street at East 75th Avenue near Colorado 2, could have been avoided had the City Council taken steps to control traffic flow in the area.
He said he and others in the neighborhood have gone to the council and complained that vehicles race through the area.
“We have been saying this was going to happen,” he said.
Commerce City’s traffic unit hasn’t received any complaints about the streets, said Lt. Chuck Saunier, Commerce City police spokesman, who runs the unit.
And there is no record that Dye ever complained about the roads to the council, said Ross Hilker, a Commerce City spokesman.
D’Artagnan Dye was riding his bike with friends at 4 p.m. when they crossed from East 75th onto Oneida. He was struck by a white Ford F-150 southbound on Oneida.
The boy rode in front of the truck, thinking it would slow down, Saunier said. The pickup stopped briefly, then left.
