New Haven Independent

The incident took place around 4:45 p.m. Wednesday. Police were still trying to control the crowd after the two victims were transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital. Read and Shepard streets were closed off.

Witnesses said a 15 year-old neighborhood boy was driving up and down Shepard recklessly and rammed into the van. The driver emerged from the van, “stunned,” in the words of one neighbors. The boy’s friends — eventually numbering as many as a dozen — pounded on him until the cops showed up. Then they fled.

The driver is believed to be in his 50s. The teen on the dirt bike was 15; he had an open skull fracture between his eyes and a shattered femur, according to initial reports. The driver suffered severe head injuries from the beating.