Remember the important rule of true-or-false questions: if any part of the statement is untrue, then the statement is false.

14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite

A schoolboy has survived a direct hit by a meteorite after it fell to earth at 30,000mph.

No, false. There’s no way the meteorite was traveling 30,000 mph when it hit him, nor did it hit him and then form the crater. This doesn’t mean the chunk isn’t a meteorite, nor that he wasn’t struck by it — elements of the story are certainly plausible, and there’s no reason to suspect that anybody is fabricating the event. I suspect it’s a case of a reporter doing a minimum of background fact-checking and seeing that meteors travel that fast in space and just ran with it — no feel for the number being reasonable (supersonic, and many times faster than a bullet) or reconciling the relatively minor injury with this and the creation of a crater.

There’s a fairly thorough discussion of the details over at Bad Astronomy