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Sergeant Steven A. Brown said it was possible that neither the driver nor the boy saw each other before he was hit on Washington Street in East Bridgewater. There are no sidewalks on Washington Street.

Boy wearing 'heelies' hit, killed

He was gliding across road to get the mail

By John R. Ellement
Globe Staff / March 14, 2006

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EAST BRIDGEWATER -- Cindy Carmichael watched from the window of her Washington Street home yesterday morning as her 12-year-old son, Ryan, zoomed across the two-lane road to the family mailbox wearing his ''heelies" -- sneakers with wheels in the heels. (Full article: 719 words)

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