Katelyn Rousseau was supposed to get a ride home from the Lebanon Junior High School dance Friday, but it was one of the warmer nights of the spring, so Rousseau, 14, decided to join four friends and walk with them to their homes in downtown Lebanon.

About 9:30 p.m., as they approached a crosswalk, the friends had slightly separated. One had walked ahead and crossed the street, two others fell behind.

Katelyn and Clayton "Woody" Giveen, 14, were in the middle of the crosswalk, chatting. Suddenly, Katelyn saw a vehicle, up close.

"We didn't see it until it was right next to us," Katelyn said. "I thought, 'Oh, my God,' because it was next to us."

"I was just talking to Katelyn and she said, 'Oh, my God,' " Woody said. "I was spinning and sliding and I didn't know what was happening."

Their next memories are of lying in the middle of Hanover Street, in pain. The car that hit them had driven off, the victims said, but their three friends sprang into action, running over and blocking oncoming cars. A woman standing on the nearby bridge called 911.

Woody suffered a broken right leg, a torn ligament in his left knee and a broken right collarbone. Katelyn was left with a fractured left shoulder blade.

The Lebanon police Tuesday said they were still investigating the accident. The police identified the driver as 20-year-old Sergey Plotnikov of Henniker and said he was driving a green 1995 Mazda 626.

Authorities have filed no charges against Plotnikov. Lebanon police Chief Jim Alexander said investigators are still trying to piece together circumstances surrounding the accident to determine whether charges are warranted.

Plotnikov could not be reached for comment.

Alexander declined to describe the exact circumstances of the collision, citing the ongoing investigation.

With three limbs damaged, Woody can't use a crutch and is confined to bed until he can learn to climb into a wheelchair.

A first basemen on the junior high baseball team, Woody probably will not be able to try out for soccer or baseball at the high school next year, and he is worried he won't be able to do any swimming this summer.

For now, he spends days playing video games and watching movies from bed, although, yesterday, teachers were supposed to drop off a batch of homework.

And he's spending a lot of time with Katelyn, the only other Lebanon student on involuntary vacation this week.