RUN OVER BY DAD
Father ‘accidentally kills his 21-month-old son after reversing his car over him on their driveway’
The little lad was playing with his eight-year-old brother when the tragedy happened
A TODDLER was run over and killed by his dad while playing on the family's driveway in a devastating accident.
The 21-month-old boy died on Sunday after being hit while playing with his eight-year-old brother at their home in Bristol, Connecticut.
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Robin Reid, who lives opposite the family in Sycamore Street, told she saw the accident happen.
She said: "It's very heartbreaking.
"I don't think he realised that he'd hit the boy."
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She told the dad, 45, was "devastated" and collapsed in shock when he realised he had hit the little boy, who died at the scene.
Ms Reid said: "This is a good man, a good mother, a good family. They are good people.
"This man just dropped to the ground when it happened to be with his child.”
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She added: "He was so playful. He had blond, curly hair.
"He loved his brother and was always all over him. Just adorable.”
In a tragic twist, she said the man was actually moving his car to block the road from other vehicles so kids could play safely when he ran over his son.
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Neighbours are planning a candlelit vigil for the little boy and have rallied round the family, creating a memorial on the family's front lawn.
Cops said they are investigating, but at this stage believe it was "an unfortunate accident".
In December, four-year-old Barnaby Cork was accidentally run over and killed by his dad in a leisure centre car park in Oxfordshire.
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