A 2-year-old child has died in Woodland, California, outside Sacramento, after being hit by a truck that had a 3-year-old behind the wheel, police say.
A 2-year-old child has died in California after being hit by a truck that had a 3-year-old behind the wheel, police say.
The fatal incident happened Saturday afternoon in Woodland, outside of Sacramento, as the vehicle was “left running while parked at a gas pump,” according to the Woodland Police Department.
When the owner of the truck was inside the store, the 3-year-old who was “in the backseat of the truck” then “got out of their car seat and got into the driver’s seat,” investigators say.
“The truck began moving forward and it collided with a two-year-old child who was near a taco stand on the edge of the lot,” police said in statement.
