4-year-old driving van runs over toddler at NYC daycare
NEW YORK -- A 2-year-old child is in critical condition after being run over by a van driven by a 4-year-old boy.
CBS New York reports that the accident happened Tuesday in the New Brighton section of Staten Island.
The older child sat in the driver's seat of the van, which belongs to Busy Kidz Group Family Day Care, and put it into gear as a daycare worker was attending to another child in the vehicle.
The van struck the younger child and rolled into a driveway across the street.
Chris, whose daughter attends the daycare center, said this was just an accident.
"It just happens, it's not like it was on purpose, or neglectful or anything like that," he said.
But another parent said she wants someone to be held accountable.
"I want charges to be pressed against the daycare provider because that is serious...I also want the police to find out what really was going on," the mother, whose two daughters were in the van, told Glenn Schuck of CBS Radio station 1010 WINS. "I praise God that my kids are here right now, they are breathing."
No criminal charges have been filed.
The daycare center on Winter Avenue was closed Wednesday.
Operator Ashanti Sullivan did not comment, Schuck reported.