2yo Boy Run Over After Letting Go Of Mums Hand

Story ByAna LacasaSub EditorJoseph GolderAgencyCentral European News

Video Credit: CEN

This is the moment a two-year-old boy lets go of his mum’s hand and runs into the road just as an oncoming van hits him running him over.

The boy was fatally injured in the accident which took place in the municipality of Choloma in the north-western Honduran department of Vores and he died after being taken to hospital.

According to local media, the mother was trying to get into a taxi with her son when the accident happened.

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In the shocking footage, the mum opens the cab’s back door for her son to sit down but he wanders off behind the car and she chases after him.

At one point, the mum appears to just grab hold of the toddler’s T-shirt, however he breaks loose and runs straight into the path of an oncoming van.

He is seen being dragged along the road before the vehicle’s wheels run over his body.

The toddler, identified as two-year-old Elmer Jeremias Torres, was reportedly taken to hospital alive, but he died from his injuries several hours later.

Meanwhile, the van driver has been arrested as the investigation continues,

According to the Observatory of Violence at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), over 600 people have been killed in road accidents in Honduras so far this year.

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