UPDATE: 1-year-old girl killed in accident at Oyster Road home
This article has been updated from an earlier version.
A 14-month-old girl was run over and killed at about 1:45 p.n. at a private residence on Oyster Road near the intersection of Brownsville Road.
Sheriff A.J. Smith confirmed the fatality on Facebook Live.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, which was dispatched to 545 Oyster Road, a 42-year-old woman was backing a pickup truck out of a private residence on Oyster Road when she failed to notice the child in the path of the right front wheel.
The child was struck by the wheel, and pronounced dead at the scene.
Sheriff’s deputies, Apalachicola police officers, first responders and an ambulance from Weems Memorial Hospital all arrived on the scene immediately following dispatch at 1:50 p.m.
Smith said the name of the child is being withheld to give the family time to grieve.
The Times will update this story as more information becomes available.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.