A local family is mourning the loss of a toddler in an accident that occurred as severe storm were moving into the area Tuesday, April 28.
According to a press release issued by Sgt. Shane Cartwright, public information officer with the Parker County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were dispatched to a residence in northeast Parker County about 4:30 p.m. that day after a 911 call from a relative of the 1-year-old boy. The caller told dispatch another family member had accidentally driven over the toddler while moving a vehicle in the driveway of the residence.
When deputies arrived at the home, they learned an adult family member had attempted to relocate a vehicle nearer the structure for protection from the incoming storm. Without the family’s knowledge, the child had exited the residence and stood in a blind spot of the vehicle. As the vehicle pulled forward, the child was driven over.
