11-year-old Roseville boy expresses gratitude to group of kids who helped him after bike crash
By Peyton Headlee
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ROSEVILLE, California (KCRA) — An 11-year-old boy from Roseville is expressing gratitude after a group of students came to his aid when he fell off his bike on his way home from school.
Alex Cannon said he fell on a busy bike path right after classes let out at Barbara Chilton Middle School.
“It’s like half a mile from my house to school. And I was like super tired. So, I went and I asked my friend like, ‘Hey, can I hitchhike?’ Because he has an e-bike. So, he said, ‘Yeah,'” Cannon said.
So, on his bike, Cannon held onto his friend’s electric bike. But, after only a few seconds, he said he began to tip over.
“I just, like, blacked out and then the next thing I know, I’m on the ground crying,” he said.
Cannon said he was crying and covered with scrapes and bruises, but surrounded by other kids who stopped to help.
“I look behind me and there’s like ten people surrounding me. And I’m like, ‘What happened?’ And they’re like you skidded five feet across the ground and I’m like, ‘Oh, ow, everything hurts,'” Cannon said.
He said the group of about a dozen middle schoolers stayed with him for the next 30 minutes, applying water to the spots where he was bleeding, giving him band-aids, and helping him get ahold of his mom.
“I get this text it says: Hi. Your son fell off his bike. Answer your phone, please. And I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh,'” Lizzie Cannon, Alex’s mom, said.
Lizzie Cannon said she grabbed her electric scooter and rushed to find him. On the way there, she said there were students already out looking for her.
“When I went to the stoplight where I needed to cross the road, there were two kids and they said, ‘Hey, is it your son that fell?’ So I followed them and they showed me where he was,” she said.
Upon finding her son, Lizzie Cannon’s concern shifted to admiration for the students who helped him.
“They said ‘Hey, we checked his head. Nothing’s broken. He can walk.’ And they had him in a little shady area and they were cracking jokes and bringing up his spirit so that he didn’t feel lonely,” she said. “It’s inspiring to see a bunch of kids at this impressionable age just stopping to help a kid instead of looking the other way.”
“In that moment, it was a bad moment because I was hurt, but at the same time, it was like an amazing moment knowing that these kids stopped and like, cared for me,” Alex Cannon said.
Alex Cannon is scraped and bruised, but above all, he said he is grateful.
“I mean… I’m very thankful,” Cannon said. “Thank you for caring for me and helping. And I hope that that spreads out the world.”
He said he learned two valuable lessons: always wear a helmet and avoid holding onto friends’ e-bikes.
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