Car kills toddler
The Age
Saturday February 19, 2011
A toddler died last night after being hit by a car in the second fatal driveway accident this week.Police say the 15-month-old boy was hit by a car that was driving forwards in a shared driveway in Chirnside Park in Melbourne's east.Further investigations are under way.He is the fifth Victorian child to have died in a driveway accident since January 2009.Another child, 16-month-old Dhiyan Gahir, was killed on Tuesday when his father accidentally drove over him in the driveway of his Hillside home in Melbourne's north-west.Kidsafe Victoria estimates that driveway accidents injure one Australian child each week and kill one child each month.
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