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Girl In Stroller Hit By Off-Duty Officer
POSTED: 4:45 pm EDT May 16,
2008
UPDATED: 3:56 pm EDT May 17,
2008
COBB COUNTY, Ga. -- Cobb County Police Saturday said they don't expect to file charges in a Friday afternoon incident in which the Cobb officer hit a three-year-old girl in a stroller with his private vehicle.The incident happened at Bentley and Terrell Mill Roads in Cobb County.The little girl and her parents had just stepped off the sidewalk when she was hit by the officer’s truck. He was dropping off his child at daycare when the crash happened.A young child cried from leg injuries as she was loaded into an ambulance. Her parents were pushing her in a stroller when an off-duty Cobb County police officer in his personal truck hit them.SLIDESHOW: Off-Duty Officer Hits Girl In Stroller
"I saw the folks getting ready to cross the street and I saw the truck pulling up. And as they were getting ready to walk off the crosswalk, he was making a right turn and hit the little girl,” said witness Gerald Kimball.Cobb County police said the officer was on his way to work and was at a stop light on Bentley Road trying to make a right turn onto Terrell Mill Road when the family stepped into the intersection."They were screaming, yelling, telling him to stop. Then he finally stopped and when he backed up, the little girl was mashed into the walker and we had to break the walker apart to pull her out of the walker,” said Kimball.
VIDEO: Girl In Stroller Hit By Off-Duty Officer
"He observed them, they were not in the crosswalk at that time when he observed them. He looked left, went to make his turn, at that time they had entered the crosswalk and he struck the stroller,” said Cassie Reese with the Cobb County Police Department.Reese said Saturday that witnesses accounts of what happened were conflicting. And, investigators believe it was just an unfortunate accident.
"I saw the folks getting ready to cross the street and I saw the truck pulling up. And as they were getting ready to walk off the crosswalk, he was making a right turn and hit the little girl,” said witness Gerald Kimball.Cobb County police said the officer was on his way to work and was at a stop light on Bentley Road trying to make a right turn onto Terrell Mill Road when the family stepped into the intersection."They were screaming, yelling, telling him to stop. Then he finally stopped and when he backed up, the little girl was mashed into the walker and we had to break the walker apart to pull her out of the walker,” said Kimball.
"He observed them, they were not in the crosswalk at that time when he observed them. He looked left, went to make his turn, at that time they had entered the crosswalk and he struck the stroller,” said Cassie Reese with the Cobb County Police Department.Reese said Saturday that witnesses accounts of what happened were conflicting. And, investigators believe it was just an unfortunate accident.
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