Bike-riding Santa Rosa middle schooler injured after crashing into car

<p>A Santa Rosa middle school student riding his bike to school Friday morning jumped a curb into the street against traffic and crashed into a car turning out of a driveway, police said.</p><p>The 13-year-old boy suffered only minor injuries in the 7:50 a.m. crash, police and emergency personnel said.</p><p>Police said the boy was en route to Rincon Valley Middle School, heading eastbound on Montecito Boulevard near Middle Rincon Road, a busy crossroads jammed on weekday mornings with vehicles and kids headed to various schools in the Rincon Valley area.</p><p>The seventh grader was on the sidewalk on the north side of Montecito, across from Oliver's Market, when he approached a clump of 10 or 15 students waiting at a bus stop and hopped off the curb to avoid them, traffic Officer Jason Brandt said.</p><p>A woman pulling out of an apartment complex driveway on the other side of the bus stop, meanwhile, couldn't see him through the other kids and was turning into the westbound lane when the eastbound cyclist struck her, Brandt said.</p><p>The driver, Kaylyn Meagor, 26, had the right of way and was turning onto the road in the proper direction of travel, Brandt said.</p><p>The bicyclist tried to veer around her but was unable, he said.</p><p>Police did not make the boy's name public because he is a minor, Brandt said.</p><p>His parents were with him at the scene of the crash, before he was taken to Kaiser hospital to have a bruised leg and complaints of pain checked out, Brandt said.</p>