Ravenwood - 06/02/04 06:45 AM
While this is a truly tragic story, I cannot help but notice something. The entire story is quoted below. See if you can figure out what's missing.
Toddler run over by SUV in parking lot diesApparently there was no driver and the SUV acted on it's own. It must have been laying in wait for some unsuspecting victim to run behind it.A child was killed Monday when he was hit by a vehicle outside a shopping mall in Lake Jackson.
A LifeFlight helicopter crew flew the 1-year-old boy to Memorial Hermann Hospital, where he died soon after arriving, hospital officials said.
The accident happened about 2:30 p.m. outside the Chuck E Cheese's restaurant at Brazos Mall on Texas 332 after the child's 17-year-old father, a Holiday Lakes man, removed the boy from the vehicle and stood him in the parking lot, police said. The child ran away from his father and went behind another vehicle as it was backing out of a parking space, said Lake Jackson police Sgt. Keith Traylor.
The vehicle, a GMC Jimmy, ran over the child, who suffered closed injuries to his head, chest and abdomen.
The SUV will have a driver, as soon as it comes time to sue.
Now, haven driven a large SUV of similar size, I can say that there's probably no way for the driver to have seen the kid. Heck, I almost ran over a Honda Civic that was below window level of my Blazer.
Of course it couldn't possibly be the fault of the father who doesn't hold on to his kid in a parking lot.
And how is it relevant at all that its an SUV? A one year old would be just as dead running behind a moving station wagon or pickup truck.
Stupid reporters.
Posted by: Aaron at June 2, 2004 1:45 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
