Articles labeled: car accident

A tragic accident occurred at a Victoria, Texas car wash when a toddler was run over while playing at a self-serve car wash.

Police say the toddler and his six-year-old brother had been playing Thursday afternoon while their parents cleaned their white Mitsubishi sedan. The driver of the Hummer, who had just finished vacuuming his vehicle and pulled forward, was not speeding when the toddler was hit.

“He didn’t do anything wrong. He just didn’t see the small child that had wandered away. This is an absolute unfortunate accident,” said Police Chief Bruce Ure in Friday’s online edition of the Victoria Advocate.

Steven Curtis Chapman, a huge Christian music star, suffered a tragedy at his home when his 5 year old daughter was struck and killed by a car driven by her older brother.

The girl, Maria Sue, was hit in the driveway of the family’s home Wednesday afternoon by a Toyota Land Cruiser driven by her teenage brother, said Laura McPherson, a spokeswoman for the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

The brother, whose name and exact age weren’t available, apparently did not see the girl, McPherson said. No charges are expected.

“It looks like a tragic accident,” she said.

A mother in Garland, Texas, accidentally ran over her 2-year-old with her car, not expecting the child to be outside late at night.

Police said that little Marvin Segovia and his brother were taken outside by their father to look at the stars.

When the mother returned from a trip to the grocery store, she apparently ran over Marvin when the toddler wandered into the driveway, police said.

The mother at first did not realize she had struck the child. That realization only came moments later when she heard her husband’s screams from the front yard, police said.

A 6-year-old in Pittsburg, California was run over by her mother’s car in what police are describing as a “tragic accident”.

Pittsburg police say six-year-old Rachel Lopez died in a hospital Wednesday after her mother ran over her a few doors down from their home.

The mother was driving home Wednesday afternoon when she stopped her car to talk to two or three of her daughters.

Police say when the mother drove off, she didn’t notice her six-year-old had had ridden in front of the vehicle in a big wheel-type tricycle.

A 7-year-old from Long Island, New York is in a coma after being struck by a car after he had made a purchase from an ice cream truck. We had a near miss ourselves as kids chasing after those siren song chimes, so we know how this can happen.

Javier Reyes remains in critical condition at Stony Brook University Medical Center.

The boy’s stepfather tells Newsday in Monday editions that doctors noted the boy’s brain was swelling and that they intended to keep him sedated for 48 to 72 more hours.

The stepfather says Reyes was at his East Patchogue home Sunday when he ran out the door to chase after the ice cream truck before his mother could stop him. He was struck as he stepped from behind the truck. Police say it was an accident.

Whoops!

Two-year-old Shaylyn Lejoure had a memorable driving experience on Wednesday morning.

About 11 a.m., the toddler drove the family car into a room at the Victoria Park Inn. No one was injured in the accident.

And it wasn’t even the first time Wednesday that someone drove into a Regina building: a woman in her 70s had hit a pub earlier in the morning.

An family with Indiana license plates, missing since January 10th, have been found submerged in lake in their car. Police are still investigating the circumstances. The area where the car went under is reported to be a hairpin turn.

GALLATIN COUNTY – One week after Marilyn Robbins reported her son and his family missing, the family of five was found dead inside their car in a Gallatin County creek.

Investigators confirmed Friday evening that the family drowned after their car went off the road. They include: Glenn Allen Johnson Jr., 33; his pregnant wife Kendra Nicole Johnson, 26; and their children Sevin, 5; Mekenzie, 2; and Mya Ula-Jean, 18 months.

Autopsies were completed at St. Luke East in Fort Thomas.

The vehicle, recovered Thursday night, was traveling west on Ky. 467 when it went over the side of the road and overturned into Eagle Creek. The car was almost completely covered by the water.

A mother, father and child crashed into a lake in Georgia, where the car sank, killing the entire family. I pray that they were unconscious when the car sank.

HARALSON COUNTY, Ga. — Georgia State Patrol has confirmed a mother, father and child were killed when their car crashed into a Haralson County lake Wednesday evening during wintry weather conditions.

Trooper Larry Schnall with the GSP said weather appears to be a factor in the crash. Weather conditions and roads in Haralson County were slick after sleet and snow moved through the area Wednesday evening.

It’s unbelievable, it’s tragic and it’s heartbreaking…

Two children of a Fort Bliss soldier flown back from Iraq with combat injuries are dead and a third is on life support after a car accident on the way to visit their father in the hospital, Army officials said.

Army Spc. John Austin Johnson was waiting for his wife and three kids to visit him at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio on Oct. 13 when another soldier told him his family’s car had rolled over four times on Interstate 10 about 12 miles east of Ozona on the gusty West Texas plains.

“He said, ‘Two of my children are dead?’ ” Army Sgt. 1st Class Eugene Schmidt told the Dallas Morning News. “And we started crying.”