The Phoenix City Council is set to vote Wednesday on a $5.25 million settlement payment to the family of a toddler who was struck by a Phoenix police cruiser in June 2023.
The incident occurred in early June 2023 when a police officer and a police assistant were driving north on 11th Avenue near Buckeye Road. According to police, the officers were not responding to an active call at the time and had just finished on a previous call.
Police say the driver saw a girl in a nearby yard waving to alert the officers but didn’t see the young toddler who had wandered into the street. The officers were looking at the girl, thinking she may have been waving them down but did not notice the child in the street until the last minute…