Saugus man in critical state after elderly woman hits him with car

SAUGUS – A Saugus man is fighting for his life at a Boston hospital after a 93-year-old driver struck him Monday on Talbot Street.Erik Ray, 38, of Denver Street, remained in critical condition Tuesday at Mass. General Hospital, according to Saugus police spokesman Lt. Mike Annese.The driver, Geraldine Haley, of 15 Palmer Ave., Saugus, has not been cited in the accident.”There could be charges if, for some reason, he doesn’t make it through this,” Annese said.Haley declined to comment when reached by phone Tuesday.Haley’s passenger, 84-year-old Lillian E. Stickney of 19 Talbot St., said Ray was riding a “three-wheel bike” that was low to the ground when he was struck about 10:15 a.m. That type of bicycle requires the rider to operate the bike by sitting low to the ground in an upright position.”He came out of nowhere, all of a sudden she hit something,” Stickney said. “She didn’t see anything. Neither one of us did.”Stickney says Haley was giving her a ride home to the Heritage Heights complex when Ray was hit at the corner of Talbot and Denver streets.”I worked in auto insurance for several years. I saw and heard a lot,” Stickney said. “I was just horrified.”Haley was not driving very fast when the bicyclist was hit, Stickney said.