Boy Struck On Motorcycle, Grandma Arrested For Child Endangerment: Santa Rosa CHP

SONOMA COUNTY, CA -- A 56-year-old Clearlake woman was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment Friday morning in the south Santa Rosa area after her 12-year-old grandson was struck while riding a motorcycle as the pair were reportedly returning from making a beer run, the California Highway Patrol reported.

CHP Santa Rosa Area Public Information Officer Jonathan Sloat said CHP officers responded at 8:15 a.m. Friday to a collision involving a pick-up truck and a motorcycle on Todd Road, just east of Primrose Avenue. CHP's preliminary investigation revealed the boy's grandmother, Theresa Miranda, was riding a small 80-cc motorcycle and that her grandson was following her, also on an 80-cc motorcycle.

"Neither motorcycles were street legal," Sloat said.

As the driver of a Ford F-250 truck, Nathan Coogan, 39, of Santa Rosa, was traveling westbound at about 30 mph, he prepared to pass the boy but the boy "suddenly swerved to the left, directly in front of the truck and was struck," Sloat said.

"The 12-year-old was ejected into a drainage ditch on the south shoulder of the road, under the truck," Sloat said.

The boy, who was wearing a helmet, suffered moderate injuries and was transported to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, according to Sloat.

As CHP officers spoke with the boy's grandmother, she told them she and her grandson had been "on their way home from getting beer at a nearby store," Sloat said.

The officers determined that Miranda was not licensed for driving a motorcycle and that she had an outstanding warrant for a prior child endangerment case.

She was arrested and booked on suspicion of child endangerment, driving unlicensed and the outstanding warrant, according to Sloat.

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