Daen Chesterman, of Baker City, shown in 2019, was hit by a pickup truck while riding his scooter across the street on the way to Dollar Tree with a friend around 5 p.m. on Nov. 19, according to his mother, Alyshia Dyke.

BAKER CITY — Daen Chesterman remembers the headlights but not the collision.

The next thing the 10-year-old Baker City boy recalled was waking up on the blacktop of Resort Street near the Baker County Library.

Daen was hit by a pickup truck while riding his scooter across the street on the way to Dollar Tree with a friend around 5 p.m. on Nov. 19, said his mother, Alyshia Dyke.

It was dark, and neither Daen nor his friend, Brayden Carr, 13, had a light or was wearing reflective clothing. Neither was wearing a helmet.

The impact bruised Daen’s heart and his right lung, Dyke said. She said he was on supplemental oxygen during the seven days he was at St. Luke’s Hospital in Boise. The lung bruise affected Daen’s alveoli, the air sacs that expand and contract, taking in oxygen from the blood and expelling carbon dioxide.

He sustained a severe concussion when the back of his head hit the pavement, and his right femur, tibia and fibula were fractured.

Daen is recovering at home.

He didn’t need surgery, but he is using a wheelchair while his leg fractures heal, and he has multiple appointments, including for physical therapy, at the Boise hospital, his mother said.

Brayden, who had already crossed Resort Street, saw the pickup hit Daen.

He said he ran to his friend and asked him if he was OK.

“No, I’m not,” was Daen’s response, Brayden said.

Baker City Police Chief Ty Duby said police found no evidence that the pickup driver was impaired or was speeding.

The driver, who he declined to name, was not cited, Duby said.

Police Sgt. Wayne Chastain, who responded to the accident scene on Nov. 19, said officers watched security camera video from Thatcher’s Ace Hardware, which is south of Dollar Tree.

The camera was too far away to show any details of the collision, which happened in the middle of Resort Street where Madison Street enters from the east, Chastain said.

Daen and Brayden crossed Resort in the middle of that intersection, where there is no crosswalk, Chastain said.

He said police interviewed a couple of eyewitnesses, both of whom said it appeared to them that the pickup was driving at a reasonable speed.

Chastain said there were no skid marks on the street.

He said the driver did not see either boy.

Both Dyke and Brayden’s mother, Lora O’Neal, said they understand that the boys were riding after dark and without lights or reflective clothing.

They said they were upset, though, because according to their sons, the driver yelled at them after the collision.

Dyke said Daen was “very depressed and in pain” while he was in the hospital.

But he was “super happy” to return home and is “back to himself.”

Dyke and O’Neal said their sons will be wearing helmets while riding their scooters in the future.

“Anything on wheels,” O’Neal said.