A 7-year-old lady in Lake County, Florida, was struck and killed by a automotive being pushed by her 70-year-old grandmother on Sunday.

The Florida Freeway Patrol said in accident report that the grandmother was driving a van to drop off relations at a house in Leesburg, based on native information station WKMG. Everybody exited the car when troopers mentioned the grandmother didn't see her granddaughter in entrance of the automotive earlier than driving ahead, hitting her.

The kid was taken to Leesburg Regional Hospital the place she handed away. Freeway patrol troopers mentioned that the incident stays underneath investigation.

Fb customers had blended reactions to the incident on WKMG's Fb web page. One person wrote, "Oh my so unhappy. Prayers for her household I'm certain the grandmother is devastated."

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The Florida Freeway Patrol is investigating after a 7-year-old lady was by accident struck and killed by her grandmother driving a van on Sunday. Above, is a rear view of Chevrolet Avalanche pickup truck parked on the driveway of a suburban house in California.Smith Assortment/Gado/Getty Photos

One other questioned how the incident might have occurred, writing, "Would not sound correct. Thought she pulled into the driveway to drop individuals off? Folks then get out. To tug up once more would not make sense to me."

Newsweek reached out to the Florida Freeway Patrol for added remark.

A number of related and tragic incidents involving kids being run over by their relations have occurred not too long ago.

Final week, a household in Tulsa, Oklahoma, misplaced their 2-year-old son after he was struck by his father, who was attempting to park a truck. In a press release launched on Fb, the Tulsa Police Division mentioned that the toddler had run again towards the truck as the daddy was pulling it into their driveway and didn't see him. The kid was rushed to the hospital in crucial situation, however died in a single day from his accidents.

In Texas in late March, a father by accident ran over his 2-year-old daughter whereas reversing in a parking storage. She was taken to the hospital in crucial situation as properly and handed away shortly after.

Sergeant Tom Alonzo with the San Antonio Police Division advised reporters on the time, "The household may be very grief-stricken. It is only a horrible tragedy and accident."

And in January, a 7-year-old boy in Barry County, Michigan, was struck and killed by his father, who was driving a bulldozer, police mentioned.

The daddy was driving the bulldozer on the household property whereas his son rode on a trailer related to it when the boy by accident fell off and was run over. He was pronounced lifeless on the scene, based on the Michigan State Police.

Based on KidsAndCars.org, a nationwide nonprofit devoted to saving kids from accidents in and round motor automobiles, not less than 50 kids are backed over by vehicles or vehicles each week in the USA.

One-year-olds are most in danger. In over 70 p.c of those harrowing accidents, a father or mother or shut relative is behind the wheel.