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Hartford man charged with reckless driving after high school student was pinned between delivery van, car

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Coventry police charged a Hartford man with reckless driving and unsafely backing up his delivery truck after police said he pinned a high school student between two vehicles at Coventry High School in December.

Bernard Luetjen, 42, of 62 Catherine St., Hartford, turned himself in to authorities Tuesday, police said. He was released from custody on a written promise to appear in court and is scheduled to appear in Superior Court in Rockville on Feb. 26.

On Dec. 5, at about 7:18 a.m. police said Luetjen backed his newspaper delivery truck into a female high school student, “pinning her for a short time between his vehicle and another vehicle,” Coventry Police Chief Mark Palmer said Tuesday.

The student was getting out of her parent’s car at the time of the accident. The van driver had been delivering the New York Times, which the Library Media Center receives daily, police said.

The 16-year-old was taken to Connecticut Children’s Medical Center with nonlife-threatening injuries, police said.

Mikaela Porter can be reached at mmporter@courant.com