A Riverside woman was fatally injured when her pickup truck rolled into her after it was either left in gear or had a transmission malfunction while she was preoccupied with strapping her toddler into his car seat, police said today.
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Tamara Williams, 43, was pronounced dead at the scene of the bizarre accident, which happened in the driveway of a house in the 1500 block of Jameson Court, according to the Riverside Police Department.
Williams had driven to the location in her 2004 Chevrolet Silverado to retrieve her 2-year-old child from his father’s residence, police said.
The man told officers that he watched the victim strap the toddler into a car seat and then said goodnight before walking back into his house.
“Moments later, the witness heard the vehicle still idling in the driveway, and upon exiting his residence, discovered the woman underneath the vehicle that had rolled to the mouth of the driveway,” said Sgt. Skip Showalter. “(She) had been knocked down by the vehicle and subsequently run over. The child was not harmed.”
Paramedics arrived several minutes later, but could nothing for Williams.
Showalter said the child remains in his father’s care, and the investigation is continuing.
“It is unclear at this point if the truck’s transmission was ever placed in the park position, or if it slipped out of gear,” he said.
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This might be far-fetched, but the first thing I thought of was the ex-husband did something. I have never heard of a transmission going out of gear on its own, nor a person leaving it in reverse when they stop, then get baby, buckle baby in, then all of a sudden the car starts to roll backwards after all that time, and while its rolling runs her over.
Which doesnt make one bit of sense, she could not get out of the way before it ran her over right? Not any of these scerarios listed are what happened.
There is something very “fishy” about this story as I see it and I don’t think we need a rocket scientist to figure that out.
@A ole Grandma,
I know it sounds “fishy” this incident, however, working for an insurance company you would not believe how often this does happen. I had a gentleman in his 50′s he got out to unlatch his gates at his residence and the same exact thing happened, his truck rolled over him killing him. No one else was around. Its very bizarre , but it does happen.