{"source_url": "https://globalnews.ca", "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/6352470/edmonton-valley-zoo-hit-and-run-charges/", "title": "2 teens charged after Edmonton zoo employee hit by car in parking lot", "top_image": "https://shawglobalnews.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/adam-chac.jpg?quality=70&strip=all&w=720&h=379&crop=1", "meta_img": "https://shawglobalnews.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/adam-chac.jpg?quality=70&strip=all&w=720&h=379&crop=1", "images": ["https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/shaw-globalnews/assets/dist/images/logo-mobile.svg", "https://shawglobalnews.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/12-11-valleyzoo.jpg?quality=70&strip=all&w=720&h=405&crop=1", "https://shawglobalnews.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/12-11-zooworker2.jpg?quality=70&strip=all&w=720&h=552&crop=1", "https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/shaw-globalnews/assets/dist/images/alert-red.png", "https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?v=noscript", "https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/shaw-globalnews/assets/dist/images/alert.png", "https://shawglobalnews.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/adam-chac.jpg?quality=70&strip=all&w=720", "https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/shaw-globalnews/assets/dist/images/morty.svg", "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=3005670&c3=&c4=&c5=&c6=&c15=&cv=2.0&cj=1", "https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/shaw-globalnews/assets/dist/images/shield-blue.png", "https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/shaw-globalnews/assets/dist/images/logo-black.svg", "https://shawglobalnews.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/adam-chac.jpg?quality=70&strip=all&w=720&h=379&crop=1", "https://shawglobalnews.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/6910-g-1624-e1570040184303.jpg?quality=70&strip=all&w=136&h=136&crop=1", "https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/shaw-globalnews/assets/dist/images/logo-corus.svg", "https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/shaw-globalnews/assets/dist/images/shield.png"], "movies": [], "text": "Send this page to someone via email\n\nTwo teenagers have been charged following a hit-and-run collision in the Edmonton Valley Zoo parking lot earlier this month that sent a worker to hospital.\n\nThe collision happened on Tuesday, Dec. 10 in the parking lot off 133 Street and Buena Vista Road in the river valley.\n\nREAD MORE: Edmonton zoo employee injured after being struck by vehicle in parking lot\n\nEdmonton Valley Zoo on Dec. 11, 2019. Global News\n\nIt was reported that two vehicles \u2014 a BMW sedan and a BMW SUV \u2014 were driving erratically and stunting in the zoo parking lot when they were approached by a staff member.\n\nStory continues below advertisement\n\nEdmonton police said the sedan hit the man who was standing on a service road in the parking lot, and then both vehicles reportedly drove away.\n\nEMS responded, treated the employee and took him to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.\n\nZoo worker Adam Fortier, 26, suffered two broken vertebrae, a brain bleed and lacerations. He has since been released and is recovering.\n\nREAD MORE: Edmonton zoo employee struck in parking lot says he can\u2019t remember life-changing crash\n\nAdam Fortier, 26, an employee at the Edmonton Valley Zoo, is in the hospital after being struck by a vehicle. Dec. 11, 2019. Courtesy: Rachell Fortier\n\nOn Tuesday, police said officers identified and charged the 16-year-old male driver of the sedan with dangerous driving causing bodily harm and hit and run causing bodily harm.\n\nAnother 17-year-old boy was charged with being party to the offence with hit and run causing bodily harm and attempting to obstruct justice.\n\nStory continues below advertisement\n\nBoth youths were served notice to appear in court in the new year. 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