![Thursday’s crash at Adams Way and Porter Road, where a 12-year-old on a scooter was struck while crossing with a guard. Inset: Maricopa Fire and Medical crews respond Tuesday to Butterfield Elementary School after a separate reported crash. [David Iversen]](https://inmaricopa.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Image-91-1024x716.jpeg)
A 12-year-old riding a scooter was struck by a vehicle this afternoon near Adams Way and Porter Road in the Glennwilde neighborhood, police said.
The crash occurred around 3:15 p.m. as the child was crossing Porter Road near Leading Edge Academy and Saddleback Elementary School with permission from a crossing guard.
Authorities said the driver failed to see both the crossing guard and the child and struck the 12-year-old at low speed.
The child was taken to a hospital by their parents as a precaution. No injuries were reported at the scene.
“The driver was cited appropriately,” a police spokesperson said.
Northbound lanes in the area were temporarily impacted as officers investigated.
The incident comes just two days after a separate reported crash near Butterfield Elementary School.
On Tuesday morning, emergency crews responded to that school on Honeycutt Road in the Villages at Rancho El Dorado neighborhood after a bystander reported seeing a vehicle hit a pedestrian. When police arrived, they were unable to locate a victim or a driver involved.
Authorities asked anyone involved in that incident to contact Maricopa Police Department’s nonemergency line at 520-568-3673.
In a third incident, a child was transported to the hospital as a precaution after crews responded to a call for a crash involving a pedestrian at 8:55 a.m. yesterday in the Tortosa neighborhood near Alicante Street and Terragona Boulevard. No substantial injuries were reported.
Police reminded drivers that safety in school zones is a shared responsibility and urged motorists to watch for crossing guards and pedestrians, especially near schools.
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Even if all safety measures are perfect, all it takes is one person to ignore the rules and someone loses a life. Good thing the child is still alive, being hit by a 2 ton vehicle at low speeds is still dangerous.
How many times will an accident occur before people realize people in this city are the worst drivers ever. Every week something vehicle related happens, soon it will be everyday someone ignores the rules of the road.Eventually inmaricopa will just be about car crashes or incidents.
How about the scooters and e bikes with no sound or warning passing you while you are walking on the sidewalk and some capable of speeds at 25 or 30 mile per hour?Do they have a drivers license and proper insurance if they run into me and possibly seriously injure me or another person using the sideWALK?I have come close to being hit where their clothing brushed up against me on numerous walks.What parent would send their child to school on one of these with No helmet as well?The sidewalk is named for what it is…..a sideWALK.Not a scooter-walk,e bike-walk,or even a bicycle-walk!
So your saying because of the minority of people that use micromobility devices could possibly hit someone walking on the sidewalk, they should share the same road with a 2 ton motor vehicle that could crush someone’s bones in an instant?
Every week there is a car crash or incident in Maricopa. Be mad at the drivers that push people and kids with bikes or scooters to the safer sidewalk because they see the bike lane as extra space on the road.