A child has died after being accidentally run over in the front yard of a Queensland home, the second fatal accident involving a small child in the state on Sunday.
Police are yet to release full details, but emergency services have confirmed a child aged between three and five years old was accidentally run over in the front yard of a home at Longreach in Queensland’s central-west.
It is understood a truck was driving into the home around 6:30pm when the child was crushed beneath the vehicle.
It is the second fatality involving a small child on Sunday.
At Kallangur, north of Brisbane, .
Police said he was riding a bicycle across an intersection less than a metre from his mother, brother and grandparents when he was hit by a truck.
