5-Year Old Nashville Boy Wrecks Father’s Truck
Keep Car Keys Out Of The Hands Of Children
I read an interesting story from the Nashville Tennessean the other day about a wrecked truck ending up in the backyard of a Nashville woman. It appears that when the woman returned home from work she found a pick-up truck in her yard that had damaged a brick retaining wall and had crushed her BBQ pit.
The interesting thing about this story is that the driver of the truck was a 5-year old neighbor boy. It appears that the joy-ride was short-lived and included a drive through another neighbors yard leaving deep tire marks before it crashed and became stuck on the BBQ pit. The report went on to say that this was not the first time this child had taken a cruise in his father’s truck.
When, as experienced Nashville automobile accident attorneys, we talk about child vehicle safety we usually focus on issues of safety for child pedestrians and safety measures for securing children in moving vehicles. This story dramatizes another safety issue that doesn’t often arise but can lead to death and serious injury and property damage and that is the issue of keeping the car keys out of the hands of children. In this case in particular it appears that the parents of this boy had prior warning that he will, if given the chance, climb into the vehicle and take it for an adventure. Child safety is the responsibility of the parents and we need to be ever vigilant to those issues.
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