NEW YORK — A Massachusetts man has been charged with fatally striking a 1-year-old girl with his vehicle as she was being pushed in a stroller across a New York City street.
Police say the girl's mother was pushing her across an intersection on 23rd Avenue in Queens around 9 p.m. Thursday when a pickup truck making right-hand turn hit the stroller.
The child suffered severe head and body trauma. A police vehicle rushed the child and mother to a hospital where the girl was pronounced dead. The mother wasn't injured.
Police say the driver, a 44-year-old resident of Ashfield in western Massachusetts, remained at the scene. He was charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian.
Police on Friday identified the girl as Skylar Perkins. The accident occurred near her family's home in the borough's East Elmhurst section.