TEXAS TOWNSHIP — A 1-year-old girl was killed tonight when she was struck by a pickup truck driven by her grandfather as he was pulling out of his driveway on Eagle Lake, police said.
The girl, whose name had not been released as of late tonight, was struck at about 8:30 p.m. in front of a house at 1438 N. Eagle Lake Drive.
“She was in the driveway. What she was doing there, we don’t know,” Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Pali Matyas said. “(Her) grandfather just did not see her.”
The grandfather lives at the house, which is on Eagle Lake, but the girl did not live there, Matyas said.
The garage is situated close to the street and a black, 4x4 Ford F-150 pickup was sitting in the driveway between it and the street shortly after the incident. Sheriff’s deputies were examining the truck in the area of the front, passenger-side tire and were taking measurements on the driveway and inside the garage.
Matyas said there were no indications of any wrongdoing in the incident, but that the sheriff’s office would be continuing to investigate it.
“These are all investigated, because they involve a death. It will be forwarded to the prosecutor’s office for review,” the undersheriff said.
“This is just a very unfortunate accident at this point.”
