Child was walking along Grand Blvd. when she was hit
By JAMES HART
A girl was seriously hurt in a freak accident Saturday as a tire came off a car and hit her as she walked along a Kansas City sidewalk.
The girl — whose name wasn’t immediately available — and her family were leaving the Kansas City Irish Fest at Crown Center when the accident happened about 6 p.m., festival organizers said.
They were walking on a sidewalk along Grand Boulevard just north of 26th Street when the accident happened.
The car is an older vehicle and was headed north toward Crown Center, said Pat O’Neill, an Irish Fest spokesman.
It didn’t appear the car had hit any obstructions in the road. O’Neill described it as a “fluke tragedy.”
“She was not in harm’s way,” O’Neill said of the girl. “Harm found her.”
The girl is about 9 years old, a police officer on the scene said.
Her medical condition was not available Saturday evening, but her injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.
O’Neill said she was taken to Children’s Mercy Hospital.
Police were talking with the driver of the vehicle on Saturday evening.
Irish Fest organizers plan to dedicate a Catholic Mass to the girl at 9:30 a.m. today at Crown Center.
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