Girl Hiding In Leaf Pile Dies After Father Parks Car On Top Of Her

WFTV.com ^ | 11/4/2004 | AP

[TChris]

How absolutely heartbreaking! I knew a lady who accidentally backed over her two-year-old. It just makes you sick with grief...

[TChris]

Very sorry about the two odd lines in the post. I cut and pasted and didn't look closely enough :-{

[martin_fierro]

Oh, man. Prayers.

[wideawake]

That is just absolutely, absolutely horrible.

[camle]

why would someone want to park in a pile of leaves? after raking them and pileing them up you're gonna park atop them?

[The South Texan]

This is horrible.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

Isn't this an awful story? I heard it on our local news this morning and talked to my children about it. My dad almost ran over a baby once when he went to park his car on the side of a road near a group of people having a picnic. He saw something strange in the space and decided to get out before pulling in. It turns out that a mother had wrapped up her infant in a blanket and put him there! I still can't believe anyone would do this!

[KansasConservative1]

This breaks my heart. I have a daughter and I would absolutely DIE if this happened! I will check extra closely from now on!

[missyme]

Exactly, Parking on top of a bunch of leaves? there's something wrong with this situation

[Windsong]

Tragic

[TChris]

While it may be odd, it certainly isn't something unthinkable. You probably wouldn't think it's going to hurt somebody.

[LizardQueen]

My parents never let me play in the leaves in the road for this reason. And once I started driving always cautioned me not to drive through a pile (though it's fun and does make a satisfying sort of leaf explosion if you do) because there may be kids in it who don't know better.

So sad...

LQ

[The G Man]

That poor family.

[twigs]

Why? Right now in our driveway, you couldn't avoid parking on a pile of leaves.

[Blueflag]

No harm, no foul ... but this was posted and commented on yesterday.

Incredibly sad and tragic. Hard to perceive God's mercies in this, except that this child is in His arms. God's love can help this dad overcome his grief and guilt. My prayers are with him and his family and the rest affected.

[TChris]

Really? I did a search on "truck" and nothing came up. Was this title the same as the original? Apologies to all.

[beezdotcom]

why would someone want to park in a pile of leaves? after raking them and pileing them up you're gonna park atop them?

Nobody said he raked and piled them. I have huge windblown piles of them in my yard, and I'll probably pull my truck right up to and through some of them, and just scoop them into the back of my truck. This easily could have been me.

[missyme]

Yes but I am sure that when you are going to park in your driveway you would be able to see a person hiding under the leaves, it taks alot of leaves to cover a entire person.

[camle]

if two ten year olds can successfully hide in it, it must have been a huge pile. wouldn't the trucks catalytic converted pose a serious fire risk parking in a pile of leaves?

not to mention he felt no bumps? the kids didn't scream when he hit them?

it's a tragedy nonethtless, but looks like stupidity played a large role.