Posted on 03/30/2005 9:06:04 AM PST by franksolich
Three-year-old runs over sister
A frighteningly precocious three-year-old managed to get hold of the family car keys and finally run over his five-year-old sister just outside their home.
The young girl was flown to Trondheim's St. Olav's Hospital by air ambulance on Tuesday evening. According to local policeman Dagfinn Herskedal at Hitra, the five-year-old was in great pain after scrapes and broken bones, but was conscious when taken to hospital.
A report from St. Olav's Tuesday night signaled that the girl was in stable condition with minor injuries.
Deputy Arild Sollie said the girl had a guardian angel, and explained the incredible sequence of events leading up to the accident.
"The five-year-old girl was playing on a swing set in the courtyard. Meanwhile, her three-year-old brother went into the house, cleared off the shoe rack and used it to climb up to the key cupboard where the car keys are kept," Sollie said.
"Then he went and sat behind the wheel, started the engine and managed to drive forward 7-10 meters. The car drove over the swing set where the girl was sitting and his sister was left clamped under the car," Sollie said. "The swing set was crushed under the car where the girl lay, but there was soft earth where it happened and maybe the girl was pressed into the soft ground."
The car was parked in first gear when the three-year-old entered and managed to start the ignition.
"This is very unusual but it has happened before. Total prevention of accidents like this is hard to guarantee," Herskedal said.
I was five before I ran over any of my sibs.
Why not try a holiday in Sweden this year?
Ping for the Norway ping list.
Hmmmm, two new reporters at the Aftenposten; one wonders if the erstwhile Morten Andersen is off on special assignment, compiling a story about bison in Norway.
But whoever the first reporter at the fine newspaper the Aftenposten is, who writes such a story about bison in Norway, is going to get air-mailed some Nebraska beef, the finest beef in the world.
Hey, if it had been in the US, they would charge the 3-yo with attempted murder...
The little monster needs to be safely locked away. It's frightening even to think what he might be up to when he grows up.
What a great lesson of the benefits of socialized child-rearing. (sarcasm off)
Little Rhoda, in the movie "The Bad Seed", comes to mind.
Actually, I can sort of relate to this, at least in the case of the sister. I involuntarily collided with an automobile when I was three years old--it was a good thing I was wearing brown pants, because I got, uh, significantly damaged.
My older sister, who was five years old at the time, a couple of decades later finally admitted that while she had seen a lot of things in her life, the spectacle of her younger brother flying through the air and crashing down on his head, remains as "the most horrifying" thing she had, and has, ever seen.
Of course, I was too young to remember any of it.
I can just hear the libs now... "At least NO GUNS were involved..."
saveliberty wrote:
What a great lesson of the benefits of socialized child-rearing. (sarcasm off)
--> Well, i'm surprised TV, etc. hasn't been blamed, i'm sure they will find something to blame so they can sue (like the car manufacturer).
True. But when I was 5 in 1959 it was legal and encouraged.
This is interesting since I just watched 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane' last night.
Sounds like you. :)
I drove my uncle's split window beetle two blocks after releasing the parking break on a slight hill. Coasted til the momentum was gone. Cried when they wouldn't let me do it again. It was 1959.
In Norway, I would expect them to charge the parents and the car manufacturer with attempted first-degree murder.
They'll get my pencil when they pry it from my cold dead fingers. My Cherokee name is "Runs with Scissors".
Norwegian kids can't drive as good as Americans.
But, will an advocy group spring up to ban car keys? That would be the American response.
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