Police on Saturday afternoon arrested a 65-year-old New Canaan man by warrant in connection with an incident last month at his home, when a 14-year-old boy visiting a friend there got hurt after crashing an all-terrain vehicle or ‘ATV.’
At about 6 p.m. on Dec. 8, a Friday, officers were dispatched to a Deep Valley Road home on a report that the teen suffered facial lacerations after the crash and was transported to the Norwalk Hospital emergency room for treatment, and released, police said.
The ATV itself and the owner’s manual for the vehicle displayed multiple warnings that nobody under 16 should operate it, according to a police report.
Through an investigation, police also learned that the 14-year-old hadn’t been wearing a helmet, the report said.
The vehicle’s owner told police he didn’t know whether or not the boy was wearing a helmet, it said.
Police charged him with first-degree reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor offense.
He turned himself in at 12:15 p.m. on Jan. 13. Police released the man on $5,000 bond and scheduled him to appear Jan. 26 in state Superior Court in Norwalk.