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Most parents expect the backyard to be one of the last remaining safe places to play. Which is why parents of a little girl in Westminster, Colorado, are shocked after she was hit by a car...in her own backyard.
The 4-year-old was playing by herself in the backyard of her parents home, when she was run over by a neighbor's SUV. The vehicle crashed through the fence, struck the girl, drug her several feet, then crashed through the fence again, before finally coming to a stop after striking and uprooting a neighbors tree. The accident occurred around noon on the fourth of July.
The girls father, Casey Barnes, said he had left his daughter, Allie Vining-Barnes, playing in the backyard with the two family dogs to go inside and get his 14-month-old son. It was then that he heard what he described as "a loud bang and crash." He ran outside to find the family dogs fleeing back into the house. He yelled for his daughter, who in turn began screaming for her father. He found her curled up in the fetal position in the backyard.
Little Allie suffered multiple injuries, including a broken collar bone, a broken upper arm, a fractured elbow, a bruised lung and ribs, multiple abrasians, and what her father described as "road rash from head to pelvis." She was recovering at the Children's Hospital in Denver, and thankfully, was expected to make a full recovery.
"You think your kids are safe in their own backyard" said Allies mother, Yvette Vining. Describing her daughters injuries, she said "she can't sleep through the night because she wakes up crying in pain. ... She wants to know why she can't go out and play. ... Why she can't move her arm.
After backing out of the garage and running over her mailbox, the driver of the vehicle, 56-year-old Sosyma Zwierzynski, apparently hit the accelerator when she thought she was applying the brakes. According to police, Sosyma told them she then put the car into drive
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