[alex.w *//]

VANCOUVER — A quiet suburban Surrey, B.C., street was gripped with grief Sunday after a mother accidentally killed her three-year-old daughter while backing out of her driveway.


“She said, ‘My baby! My baby! Oh my god, I killed my baby!’” said Teja Thind, who was in his backyard next door when the accident occurred at 11 a.m.


“She said, ‘I just ran over my daughter!’” Thind told The Province.


As the distraught woman started to take her lifeless child to hospital in her SUV, Thind stopped her and told her son to call an ambulance. Richard Mitchell, who also lives next door, heard the mother scream and ran to see what had happened.


“I looked down to give the girl (cardiopulmonary resuscitation). I felt so helpless,” he said.


“The mother was totally distraught, she was frantic. She was yelling and screaming in her language.”


He said the mother, from Vietnam, was heading out on a few errands and had left the girl in the care of her older brothers, aged about 10 and 16.


“The mom was going out. She didn’t realize the front door was open,” said Mitchell.


“She got in her vehicle to pull out and I guess didn’t realize the little girl was behind the vehicle. She drove right over her.”


Mitchell estimates he arrived at the scene about 10 seconds after the accident.


“The girl was limp in her arms. She was holding her, rocking her and crying. It was tragic.”


“Everybody is feeling sad,” Mitchell said of the neighbourhood.


A Surrey police officer confirmed the little girl had run into the path of her mother’s SUV.


The mother is not facing charges.


The girl’s name was not released at press time.


Surry is approximately 20 kilometres east of Vancouver.


Vancouver Province

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[ynot-llat]

that is tragic.

[rsx]

Isn't this a fairly common accident-type?

[HonestTea]

damn....

[Razor Ramon HG]

Stupid brothers, probably too busy playing Warcraft or some dumb shit.

[twitchyzero]

poor little girl. RIP

even a shoulder check 360 degrees would probably useless here if the baby didn't scream.

[greendb7]

what in the fuck...this is just fucking sad.

[TRDood]

dooooooooooooooooooo maaaaaaaaaaaaaa


this is sad. we all have to make those back up cameras mandatory in every car

[Harvey Specter]

So sad.

[InvisibleSoul]

Surry is approximately 20 kilometres east of Vancouver.
Surry, huh.

[asian_speedster]

RIP

This is really sad

[boatcaptain]

hope the little girl r.i.p,n next life dont get run over by her mom again

[tonyvu]

wow... RIP

[impactX]

Sad... RIP

[StylinRed]

women drivers....


and crappy parenting... wth leaves their 3 and 10 year olds in the care of a 16year old.... especially the 3yr old

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

damn that is really really fucking sad.



RIP

:(

[Jason00S2000]

This is actually more common than one would think

[hotjoint]

very sad

[KingDeeCee]

Those brothers are going to get chopped.

RIP.

[wouwou]

the 16 yrs old is gonna get a beating real bad.

RIP for the little girl, very, very sad

[Presto]

You can't turn your back, for even a second, around toddlers. By the time you look back, the little guy is already half a block away. RIP.

[MR_BIGGS]

As stupid as this was - it doesn't compare to how tragic it is. Truly tragic..

[Graeme S]

This happened to a guy who bought an Infiniti SUV in the US. He sued Nissan of America because the rear-view-camera was an option, and so he said it meant Nissan knew that visibility from behind was a problem, and that they should have made the camera standard. That means that the reason he ran over his kid is that Nissan didn't provide the camera.

He lost.

Both are a tragedy. But trying to place blame on others is just stupidity.

[fliptuner]

This happened to a guy who bought an Infiniti SUV in the US.
That about sums it up.

In any case, both tragic to both families.

[Vansterdam]

wtf!

[Not really racist!]

RIP..

[roastpuff]

Goddamn. I have a little sister, and I love her so much. Such a tragic loss.

[Roach]

RIP. Traumatizing for everyone involved. The boys, the mother, the neighbours. It will be a long long time before this incident is forgotten, if at all.

Heartbreaking.

Kev

[Durrann1984]

RIP

i cant even imagine how the mother must feel

truly sad

[Cereal Killer]

RIP

[Jason00S2000]

If/when I have kids, I hope there is an option to have a transponder implanted in them, so, say, until they are 16 years old, I could track them via google maps.


Complete tragedy, but this is actually COMMON across the world where parents accidentally kill or harm their kids.

[MERXUS]

rip.... so sad...

..hang the mother

[StaxBundlez]

geesus thats fuckn sad..

[shenmecar]

another reason why women shouldnt drive. =\

[zero_one]

another reason why women shouldnt drive. =\

i reversed over my floor jack and lots of tools countless times in my econo car. if i had an suv and if i was reversing, i wouldn't notice a 3 year old kid either.

[TRD3000GT]

Poor girl. :( RIP Police should put charges on that careless mother!

[Volvo-brickster]

Poor girl. :( RIP Police should put charges on that careless mother!

its called an accident

and given the type of car, and the size of the child, short of her having someone standing behind the car guiding the driver, in this situation not much would have prevented this

the mother will have a life sentence of guilt having killed her own child. thats enough punishment as it is.

[Vulgate]

As a father of a new born, it really breaks my heart to hear this... We parents get attached to their new born so fast so I can only imagine what the mother and all the affected people are going through.

We can lay blame but it will not resolve anything besides the mother will bear a life time of guilt.

RIP baby.

[quasi]

I wouldn't see my son standing behind my truck but thank baby jebus in the manger for backup sensors. Horrible accident, hope they find a way to cope.

[LemonH2O]

another reason why women shouldnt drive. =\

Ignorant much?

This happened to a guy who bought an Infiniti SUV in the US.

These are horrible accidents, RIP little girl, hope the family can get through this somehow...

[The7even]

Ah man :( I feel soooo sorry for the girl. I hope she RIP. :(

[LethalLaw]

Poor little girl.
RIP.

[3seriesBeeM]

rip to the little girl

[originalhypa]

I wouldn't see my son standing behind my truck but thank baby jebus in the manger for backup sensors. Horrible accident, hope they find a way to cope.

This is one of my greatest fears. The reason why I fenced in the yard, and taught the kids that white lights in the back mean the car is backing up. The best we can do is try to teach them safety, but in this case a three year old isn't going to know better no matter how much she was taught.

rip to the little girl

and her family, especially the mother.
So sad.
:(

[mugentsx]

this wouldn't of happened if she had a rear view camera

[alex.w *//]

^ werd

[nosaj]

oh man....RIP:(

[LemonH2O]

this wouldn't of happened if she had a rear view camera

Well, that doesn't typically come free or cheap and not everybody can afford to have one installed on a vehicle that doesn't already have one.

I was sitting in my car today, even when I did do a 360 check, I realized there was no way I could have seen anything under 3ft tall directly behind my car.