KEENE, N.H. (AP) – A 15-year-old boy died days after his bicycle collided with a car at the intersection of the city’s Main Street and Route 101 last week.
Ian Schoefmann, a Keene High School freshman, died Friday at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. The bicycle he was riding collided with a car on Tuesday night. Schoefmann, who was wasn’t wearing a helmet, was thrown 75 feet, lost consciousness and had suffered brain damage, police said.
Schoefmann’s guardians say he was just starting to become his own person, despite dealing with the recent deaths of his parents from cancer.
His mother, Joy, who died at 47, was a volunteer with the parent-teacher association at Wheelock Elementary School. Robert Schoefmann, who died at 54, was a Boy Scout leader.
“I think he was overcoming in tremendous ways the potential shortcomings that something like losing your parents could have,” said Schoefmann’s guardian, Steven Ellis. “He was getting past that, and just this terrible accident cut that short.”
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Information from: The Keene Sentinel, http://www.keenesentinel.com
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