SUGAR LAND, Texas — Police are investigating after a 3-year-old girl was struck and killed by her father’s car in the Houston area.
The incident happened just after 10 a.m. Tuesday outside a home near Sugar Land, the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office said. The girl's father started the car to run the air conditioning and accidentally put it into reverse, KTRK-TV reported. The car struck his 3-year-old daughter.
Deputies initially said the father’s 4-year-old daughter accidentally bumped the car’s gear shift, causing it to go into reverse; but deputies later corrected that statement.
The father and emergency responders tried to administer CPR to the girl, but couldn’t revive her. She died at the scene.
Investigators are calling the death an accident.