A 47-year-old Temple woman driving a silver 2004 sedan was heading west on Adams and didn’t see the toddler when she struck her. “The driver of the sedan stopped immediately and called police,” Sgt. Brad Hunt Temple Police Department public information officer said from the scene. “The street is semi-lit - dark enough that a child that small may not be seen and would not be expected to be seen on the street,” Hunt said. “No charges at this time are anticipated against the driver.”
The traffic reconstruction team was working the scene to make sure alcohol, speed or other factors were not involved with the driver’s part of the accident. “They will be very thorough in that and make sure nothing was amiss there; however initially none of those factors seem to be present,” he said.
The child was treated at the scene for life-threatening injuries by fire and rescue and Scott & White paramedics before being transported to Scott & White Memorial Hospital.
The toddler was at the Spin Zone Laundromat with a parent and siblings when she wandered down the block from the 23rd Street business and ended up in the road. “Somehow the child wandered away from the family, got one block down here and got into the street,” he said. “More investigations will occur as to the circumstances as to how the child got down here and got into the street.”
Hunt said the thoughts of police department members were with the child and the driver and “the people that know them,” he said. “We are just hoping the child pulls through.”
Traffic was be rerouted around the scene. “It will remain closed until the reconstruction team is done with their part, marking the street and measuring - as they do,” Hunt said. “At that time it will be reopened.”
