Crime & Safety
2-Year-Old Boy Hit, Killed By Truck Leaving Home In Somerset
A 60-year-old Somerset man was backing out of his driveway in a pick-up truck when he hit and killed a toddler on Saturday morning.
FRANKLIN, NJ — A 60-year-old Somerset man was backing out of his driveway in a pick-up truck when he hit and killed a toddler on Saturday morning, authorities said.
A 911 caller reported the tragic crash saying a two-year-old boy was hit at a home on Bennetts Lane on Saturday at 8:46 a.m., according to Somerset County Prosecutor Michael H. Robertson.
Franklin Township Police Officers and EMS tried measures to save the boy before he was taken to a local area trauma center but the boy later died from his injuries.
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The Franklin Township Police Department’s Traffic Safety Bureau and Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Collision Analysis Reconstruction Team are conducting an investigation into the factors that contributed to this incident.
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