A one-and-a-half-year-old girl died on Sunday in Lochristi, in the Ghent region, following being hit by her father in a car. The accident happened around 3 p.m., the child went into the driveway of their house while his father was backing up at that time. Unfortunately, he did not see his daughter on the way. After hitting her, he immediately stopped and tried to rescue her but it was too late. The girl died as a result of the accident.
An expert has been appointed by the prosecution. The whole neighborhood is in turmoil today. The little family had only lived there for a year. “They had just bought this house because they wanted a garden for their daughter to play outside. It’s awful. The parents blame themselves a lot: him because he was driving, her because she wasn’t. with the child when it happened. But it was an accident… a terrible accident,” an acquaintance of the family told Belang van Limburg.
