That was until last month when an accident brought his days on the road to a halt. He was injured in a hit-and-run accident June 21 approximately one mile north of Athens on Elkton Road in front of Ephesus Church of Christ.
White sustained some minor injuries including scrapes and scratches. His tricycle was destroyed — breaking the wheel, axle and basket. Friends and neighbors say they “look after” White, who has special needs.
“We were having vacation Bible school and his momma called me and said he had been hit,” said John Allfrey, a family friend who also picks up White for church services at Elkton Baptist Church.
White had been at Allfrey’s house a little while before the accident asking if he would help fix the tricycle’s fenders. Allfrey told him he couldn’t do it at the time because he was preparing for VBS.
He hadn’t traveled far from his home, where he lives with his father Bobby White Sr. and mother Gina White, when an automobile hit him.
Today, however, White is doing well.
“Some folks went in together and bought him a bicycle,” Allfrey said. “He sanded on it and painted it last week and got it going last Saturday.”
White’s new ride is a Workman tricycle. “We found it on the Swap ‘n’ Shop,” Allfrey said. “He went with us.”
Allfrey said White traded him his old trike for the new one. “I’ll fix the old one up and give it back to him if he tears that one up,” he said. “We all try to look after him. He’s just a happy-go-lucky kid.”
You often see Bobby and his bike in the Sandlin and Elkton Road area; be sure to give him space when you pass.
Source: By Lora Scripps - Athens News Courier
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