MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. — The 11-year-old boy killed after a dirt bike crash on Friday hit a rope tied between two trees, the Florida Highway Patrol said Tuesday.
The youth was traveling on a 2021 Honda dirt bike southeast in the backyard in the 5600 block of Southwest Woodham Street, west of Florida's Turnpike, and “struck a rope tied horizontally in between two trees causing him to be projected from the dirt bike and onto the ground,” FHP said.
The crash was reported at 5:45 p.m., and he died at 7:01 p.m. at Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital in Stuart, the Martin County Sheriff's Office said.
FHP did not identify the boy.