Vehicle close call with toddler a stark reminder for parking lot safety
Global News
In the parking lot, video surveillance captured the moment when one of the family’s toddlers was nearly run over by an SUV last Thursday evening.
It was a close call for a family of six in the Okanagan who ventured out for a bit of fun at a local bowling alley.
Video surveillance captured the moment when one of the family’s toddlers was nearly run over in the parking lot by an SUV last Thursday evening.
Had it not been for a little intuition from the driver, along with a lot of attention, the incident could have taken a terrible turn.
“And as I was rolling, as the video shows, one of the twins had decided to run around my car,” the driver, Heather Leask, told Global News. “And, unfortunately, you know, as a three-year-old, he’s very tiny and he doesn’t show above my window, so I had no idea he was running around my car.”
Leask says her vehicle has front-end crash protection, but the alert system didn’t detect the child.
The Vernon resident says she only hit her vehicle’s brakes because she noticed the top of the toddler’s beige coat, having seen the child with his family inside the bowling alley just moments prior.
“If I hadn’t seen they were wearing beige coats, I wouldn’t even have known what that was,” said Leask. “I wouldn’t have known that was a child. I may not have hit the brakes.”
This kind of incident is all too familiar for Child Safe Canada.
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