In brief: Man survives truck rolling over head
Ryan Lipscomb lived to tell how it felt to have a truck run over his head. “Really strange,” he said.
Lipscomb, 26, of Seattle, suffered a concussion but was otherwise unhurt. He was shaken up, especially after he saw his mangled helmet.
Lipscomb, a graduate student in medical physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was riding down a bike path in Madison on Friday afternoon. As he approached an intersection, he said, he noticed the oncoming delivery truck preparing to make a right turn in front of him.
The truck wasn’t going to stop, Lipscomb said, so he slammed on his brakes, flipping his bike and landing in the street. A moment later the truck rolled over his head.
“I didn’t see it coming, but I sure felt it roll over my head,” he told the Capital Times newspaper. “It feels really strange to have a truck run over your head.”
Lipscomb was taken to a hospital and released about three hours later.
Police spokesman Mike Hanson said Tuesday there haven’t been any arrests because investigators haven’t been able to identity the driver.
On Tuesday, Lipscomb said he has had some lingering headaches and a stiff neck. “All things considered, that’s about as good as it can get,” he said.
Jerusalem
Street fighting worsens; 11 killed
The anarchy gripping the Gaza Strip deepened Tuesday as 11 more Palestinians were killed in factional fighting, eight of them in a single ambush near the border with Israel.
It was the deadliest day yet in a surge in violence that began Sunday between armed members of the rival Fatah and Hamas organizations. In three days, 20 people have died, dozens more have been wounded and everyday life in the already misery-filled seaside strip has ground to a halt.
Palestinian leaders issued more appeals for an end to the street battles, which have undermined a national “unity” government meant to bring the warring sides together. But such calls have gone unheeded.
At the same time, the possibility of Israeli military action in Gaza increased after a barrage of rockets launched by Palestinian militants struck the nearby town of Sderot, injuring a dozen people.