Story Published:
Jun 30, 2008 at 12:26 PM CDT
Story Updated:
Jun 30, 2008 at 12:26 PM CDT
SPRINGFIELD -- A 3-year-old girl has scratches and minor pavement burns after she fell out of her mother’s moving car north of the city on Monday morning. Doctors treated her at a hospital and released her.
Greene County Sheriff’s Dept. Capt. Phil Corcoran says the girl has a form of autism and her mother had the windows down and the car radio turned up to calm her daughter. He says the mother didn’t know for a couple of minutes that her daughter jumped from the car.
The mother called 911 to report the girl jumped out of the moving car near the intersection of Farm Road 171 at Farm Road 66, south of Highway KK near Fellow Lake Recreational Area.
The child showed up six-tenths of a mile away from where the mother parked her car. Cleo Link heard a scratching at his door at 6986 N. Farm Road 171 and opened it to find the girl about 7:30 a.m.
An ambulance took the girl to a hospital. Corcoran says the mother has a proper child seat in the car. He doesn’t expect her to be cited or charged.
