According to the news i got from DAILYMAIL a 6 year old Nigerian girl was knocked down by her own mother who was trying to park her car.The girl whose name is Bolutito Shodipe was run over Hounslow West tube station in south-west London yesterday morning.
The
six-year-old's devastated family are 'coming to terms with this terrible
accident' as British Transport Police investigates what happened.
Bolutito's mother was attempting to park her car outside the station at around 9.40am when she struck her child.
Police
and London Ambulance Service paramedics tried to resuscitate Bolutito
at the scene but she was later pronounced dead at St Mary's Hospital in
Paddington.continue......
A family statement released by police said: 'Bolutito was our eldest daughter and no-one could have asked for a better daughter.
'She was a beautiful, well behaved, girl who loved ballet and who will be sorely missed by all of us.
'This
is an extremely upsetting time for us and we ask that we be given the
respect and space to grieve and to come to terms with this terrible
accident.'
DCI Iain Miller of British Transport Police said detectives are working to determine how the incident occurred.
He said: 'Our officers attended, alongside
colleagues from the Metropolitan Police Service and London Ambulance
Service, and discovered a child - a six-year-old girl - had sustained
fatal injuries having been struck by a car being driven by her mother.
'It is clear that both mother and child arrived together in the car park and the accident occurred during a parking manoeuvre.
'Specialist
officers are now providing full support to the girl's family whilst
detectives are working to determine exactly how the incident occurred.'
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