Boy, 2, killed after being run over by his dad on Christmas Day as he reversed car in Portugal
A TWO-year-old boy was killed on Christmas Day after his dad reversed over him in a car. The tragic accident happened in Ribeira de Frades near the Portuguese university city of Coimbra. The tot was rushed to hospital after the alarm was raised around 3.30pm on Wednesday but died of his injuries. The boy’s dad […]
A TWO-year-old boy was killed on Christmas Day after his dad reversed over him in a car.
The tragic accident happened in Ribeira de Frades near the Portuguese university city of Coimbra.
The tot was rushed to hospital after the alarm was raised around 3.30pm on Wednesday but died of his injuries.
The boy’s dad was reportedly reversing when he accidentally hit the youngster.
He died in Coimbra Paediatric Hospital’s A&E after being rushed there after medics tried to save him at the scene.
Local paper As Beiras said the family lived in France but had returned to spend Christmas with relatives.
The family tragedy happened just a day after a 60-year-old woman was killed by her own brother in almost identical circumstances in the parish of Guidoes near the city of Trofa in northern Portugal.
She was also hit while her relative was reversing on Christmas Eve and died after being trapped against a wall.
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The victim has been named locally as Fernanda Maia.
Her brother, who has not been named, told police he had just finished a family visit to wish relatives a merry Christmas.
Local reports said he was breath-tested after the accident but told traffic officers he thought the automatic car he was driving could have a “technical” problem,
The results of the breath test have not been made public.
The tot tragedy bears a chilling similarity to a 2015 horror in the UK when a grandfather ran over and killed his two-year-old grandson outside the family home on Boxing Day.
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Charlie Gaskin, 79, failed to see “lovely and cheeky” Jack Smith behind his Ford Transit van before the boy fell under the rear wheel on an estate in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
He suffered serious head injuries and died at Milton Keynes University Hospital later that day.
After the tragedy Mr Gaskin was “run off” the estate.