The grandfather’s car started moving independently and caught the child.
A four-year-old boy was run over by a car on Thursday afternoon in Oetz (Imst district) and was fatally injured. His 61-year-old grandfather was with him at a friend’s house and the boy invited fruit he had picked himself into the car on the passenger side in the driveway. The car started moving on its own for an unexplained cause in the slightly sloping driveway and hit him.
Although the four-year-old was resuscitated at the scene of the accident and received emergency medical care, he died on the spot. The crisis intervention team is on duty to look after those involved and their families, the police reported. The vehicle was secured by order of the public prosecutor’s office, and further surveys on the course of the accident are still in progress.
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