SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. – 9-year-old Colton Arbogast was riding his dirt bike around his Spokane Valley subdivision Monday when a truck allegedly swerved into him and hit his bike.
Security camera video shows the road where the boy was riding his bike. In the video, a woman is seen standing on the side of the street filming Colton ride his bike.
A white truck is seen zooming down the street. Off-camera, Colton told NonStop Local that the truck swerved into him and clipped the front of his dirt bike.
“He started cussing at me, so I’m like ‘Okay this is not good’,” Colton said.
He sustained only a bruise and a scratch on one knee. He said he continued on his bike and tried to ride away while the man continued to scream at him.
“I was like… riding… trying to get out of there. And that old lady, when I got past his truck, she was running after me. Trying to [reach] out and grab me,” Colton said.
In the video, the woman filming Colton can be seen moving towards him. She can be heard yelling at him for riding his dirt bike on a street.
Colton can be seen screaming for his mother while frantically running home.
Colton’s mother, Jessica Arbogast, told NonStop Local that the woman in the video followed her son home. Arbogast said the woman began screaming at her.
“She just kept screaming. And then the gentleman got out of his truck and he then came…at me. And was yelling about [how] Colton was driving in the middle of the road and could’ve hit him head on,” Arbogast said. “As I turned to talk to Colton and find out what happened, the gentleman got in his truck, came down this road and the lady went and walked… further down the road and didn’t give me a chance to find out what really happened from his [Colton’s] point of view. As I turned to him and asked him, he told me ‘Well, mom, the gentleman was speeding down the road and he, as I went to move, he moved with me and he hit me on purpose’.”
Arbogast added that a neighbor spotted the pair leaving the subdivision in the white truck together.
“Sometimes it doesn’t matter if you’re outside or not. ‘Cause I was outside. I was 100 feet away. They looked like ‘grandma and grandpa.’ They were in their… early 70s… They did not peg me as somebody who would’ve been a threat,” Arbogast said.
She filed a report with the Spokane Valley Police Department and Washington State Patrol.
A public information officer for the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office told NonStop Local that the only information they could provide at this point is that it was a non-injury vehicle crash.
The spokesman added that they have received reports and complaints across Spokane County in recent months about children riding dirt bikes in neighborhoods.
