Child, 2, Hit by Car in Cartersville
The child was in the front yard of a residence in the area of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive when someone at the residence backed out of the driveway.
Cartersville police say a 2-year-old child was hit by a car in front of a local home sometime Saturday afternoon.
The child was in the front yard of a residence in the area of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive when someone at the residence backed out of the driveway, striking the child and knocking the child under the car, Capt. Mark Camp said.
"The child suffered a severe laceration to the head, but according to EMS is stable," Camp said about 5:20 p.m. "As a precaution, the child is being taken by air ambulance to Atlanta, most likely to Children's Hospital."
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Margie Murdock
8:24 pm on Sunday, March 17, 2013
That's why I think the back-up-beepers and or the GPS back vision should be standard equipment on every vehicle. I special ordered it on my CRV, and now I am hearing that Honda is making it standard on all the new CRVs. So if you can see it thru the GPS or hear the beeper, lives can be saved. When our daughter was about three years old, when her daddy came home in the truck, she rode her new tricycle right up to the rear bumper and got off. When he came back out and got in the truck, he knew she was not behind the truck, but he destroyed her new trike she had gotten for her birthday...could have been her.
Along about the same time a friend of ours came out of his house and backed over his little girl. She lived, but had brain damage as a result.
We had a friend that had come to visit us years ago that was backing out of our driveway and backed over our new puppy and killed it. We all felt bad, but the damage could not be undone. Human error is always a possibility, but back up devices could save a lot of lives. I think it should be mandatory on all vehicles.