1-year-old hit by family truck, dies

IONIA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) - A 1-year-old girl died after being hit by a vehicle Monday evening at a trailer park in Ionia Township.

The incident happened on private property around 7 p.m. at Evergreen Mobile Home Park, north of Ionia, in the 2000 block of North State Road.

The family was riding in its pickup truck with the child's mother driving and her dad in the passenger seat. The girl was riding on her father's lap. As the mother pulled up to the family's mobile home unit, the truck door swung open and the child fell out of the vehicle and was run over by the truck.

When Ionia County investigators arrived, the girl already was dead.

Officials still are trying to determine exactly what happened. The family speaks very little to no English and is talking through interpreters. Investigators are gathering information before determining whether the incident will be treated as anything more than an accident.