CHALK BLUFF, TX — Officers from McLennan County have not confirmed the name of the young boy that was hurt in a serious accident that happened in Chalk Bluff, Texas on Thursday, July 9th, 2015. News sources out of Waco said that the accident happened at around 9:15 Thursday night.
An as-of-yet unidentified 7-year-old boy was hurt when he was struck by a pickup truck on Briarwood Lane. The pickup truck is believed to have been backing out of a private driveway when it hit the boy.
EMS personnel took the child to Baylor Scott and White before he was flown to McLane Children’s Hospital where an update on his condition was immediately unavailable.
Police are still investigating at this time.
Scene of the Accident
Commentary:
Whenever I see an accident where a vehicle hits a person or vehicle backing out of a driveway, it makes me wonder if they’d even looked in their rear view mirror before pressing on the gas. In many cases, the driver of the vehicle has backed out of their driveway thousands of times, and the motions become robotic, so they may have failed to look behind them with their mirrors or a simple turn of the head because they’d done it so many times without so much as an incident. If the child on the bike was tall enough to be seen through any of the pickup truck’s mirrors, I can’t imagine too many factors that would take the fault off their shoulders. Every driver has an obligation to make sure the coast is clear before backing up, and if the driver in this instance failed to do so, they need to face some accountability.
— Grossman Law Offices
