Baby falls from moving car, dies after being hit by another vehicle

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As a sedan turned at an Irving, Texas, intersection on Sunday, one of its doors opened and an 8-month-old girl fell from the right passenger side and was hit and killed by another car, police said.

The infant was hit about 10:30 a.m. at North MacArthur Boulevard and Ranchview Drive by what Irving police said was possibly a black sedan. Its driver continued without stopping. Police do not believe the driver of the vehicle knew he or she had hit the infant, they said at a news conference Monday afternoon.

Police are asking anybody in the area of the crash around that time to come to the Irving police station to have their car checked. Police spokesman Robert Reeves said no charges will be filed against the driver who did not stop, so long as he or she did not realize what happened.

There were four children in the vehicle, driven by the baby’s mother, and two child safety seats, neither of which was in use, police said at Monday’s news conference. The children were 6 years, 3 years, 2 years and 8 months old, police said. The circumstances of how the child fell from the car are under police investigation. The infant was not in a car seat.

https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2021/11/baby-falls-from-moving-car-dies-after-being-hit-by-another-vehicle-police.html

[Wingus Dingus]

1. One of the other kids opened the door, I'm guessing. Sad.

[jimfields33]

2. Holy shit. The mother needs to be arrested and sent to jail for decades

The kids need to be placed in a home where they are safe.

[Deuxcents]

3. I agree

[Lunabell]

4. Car seats have been around for decades.

Wtf is wrong with this mom? Too busy or tired to make sure all of her kids were safe? She isn't fit to have kids if she can't keep them all safe. I just don't know why some people breed.

[LiberalFighter]

5. They want the driver running over the baby unintentionally to feel guilty?

Unless the baby's mother was not driving on the highway or busy street I don't see the point. They seem to have enough details to put it all together.

[LeftInTX]

6. Probably to verify the mother's story and wrap up the case