YOUNGSTOWN — Thirteen months after a student was struck by a car a couple of blocks northeast of East High School, a student was struck by a car Tuesday just a little farther northeast of the school.

A student was struck by a car at 3:52 p.m. Tuesday at the intersection of Stewart and Stiles avenues. The driver left the scene, leaving the boy with road rash and a cut to his hand.

The boy’s mother told police her son was walking home from East High School, east on Stewart Avenue near Stiles Avenue, when he was struck from behind in his hip area by a black SUV with dark tinted windows, the police report states.

He said he “spun off” the SUV and rolled a few times on the ground. The boy’s mother stated that the boy made it to his aunt’s house, who called the boy’s mother at work. The boy’s mother “raced” home and took the boy to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, where he was in stable condition. But he was going to receive a CAT scan and another test, the report states.

PREVIOUS INCIDENT

At 9:10 a.m. Sept. 20, 2024, a 16-year-old boy was walking with another person near the curb on Bennington Avenue at Parker Street, close to the high school, when a car hit the boy and fled the scene on Bennington Avenue.

That boy sustained serious injuries and was taken to St.Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital. He was in stable condition later.

Herman Posey III, 47, of Gladstone Street, was sentenced to three years in prison Aug. 1 in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court after pleading guilty to felony vehicular assault for striking the student Sept. 20, 2024. The next day, Youngstown police reported that police used traffic and surveillance cameras to locate the vehicle and the 46-year-old driver of the car that hit the student.

The driver, later identified as Posey, was arrested on charges of fleeing the scene of an accident and driving on a suspended license. Posey pleaded guilty in June to vehicular assault, a third-degree felony, and failure to stop after an accident, a fourth-degree felony.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Anthony Donofrio sentenced Posey to one more year than was recommended by prosecutors.