Benjamin Daggett, a 16-year-old teenager, died yesterday after spending more than two weeks in a coma after being struck by a car on his bicycle in Syossett, Long Island (NY).
Daggett was riding his bike to his weekend job at a McDonald’s restaurant when he was struck, his mother said. The Nassau County Sheriff’s Department said the young man was traveling north on South Oyster Bay Road on Sunday, January 15, and at around 10:45 a.m. was struck by a 2017 Nissan driven by a man that turned east on Long Island Expressway Service Road.
An ambulance from the Syosset Fire Department took Daggett to a hospital in critical condition with severe head trauma. He was treated at Cohen’s Children’s Hospital in Queens, where he remained in a coma for 16 days until he died early Wednesday morning, he reported. Fox News.
“He was a typical teenager who did nothing wrong. He wasn’t doing anything abnormal. He was going to work at his weekend job and was planning to go to college,” his mother, Jaime Daggett, lamented. Newsday. “He had hopes and dreams and wanted to one day help others as a counselor… There were a lot of good things he wanted and couldn’t do.”
The unidentified 54-year-old driver remained at the scene. No charges have been announced in the case.