A woman is hoping that if issues are reported, they’ll be addressed faster and incidents like what happened to her son won’t happen again.
Here in this northeast Houston neighborhood, going for walks is normal for Karla Torres’ family. But since August, that’s been tough for her 10-year-old son Allen.
“He doesn’t want to walk around with his grandma,” Torres said.
Torres told ABC13 that he was with his grandmother when he fell inside an uncovered storm drain while on the way back from a store near Duncan Street and East Crosstimbers Street.
“I got out of the house. I see the fire and the ambulance. I see my son lying down on the floor, basically where my feet are. He was lying down here,” Torres said.
A neighbor was able to rescue him first, and he was sent to the hospital right after. Torres says he had some minor fractures.
The hole is now covered, but that hasn’t put her mind at ease. Just around the corner, another storm drain wasn’t. Torres also showed ABC13 the damage to a roadside drainage ditch nearby.