A 7-year-old is in the hospital after someone ran over her outside of Holmes Park Elementary in Sapulpa.
Police responded to the school around 8:30 in the morning on Jan. 30 after it getting a report a driver hit a young child. Captain Troy Foreman said the driver left the scene, because they didn’t realize they had hit anyone.
“As they were pulling out of the parking lot, they had stopped to look to their left,” said Foreman. “There was two other students that were walking on the sidewalk coming up to the drive. One of the students had went to walk in front of the vehicle unbeknownst to the driver of the SUV.”
The driver was in a tall vehicle, which Foreman said contributed to the collision. Not only was their visibility partially obstructed, they also failed to look right as they pulled out of the lot.
“You’ve got a child that’s seven years old, so a little bit shorter, and an SUV this was a GMC Acadia, so it’s going to sit a bit higher,” said Foreman. “There were several combinations of thing that came into play with this type of crash because you’ve got traffic that’s coming from your left when you’re pulling out so obviously you look as a driver to your left, not really thinking about people walking down the sidewalk to your right.”