Child in car accident "dropped off at fire station", dies from injuries

[rainbow4321]

Ya know...whoever the adults were that did THIS, need to be locked up with the key thrown away.
The comment section has more details..including a post from the ambulance staff..they were dispatched but it was the *fire department* that called them after someone dropped off the injured child. They took the child to the hospital but he later died from massive injuries. It is not clear if the mother (mentioned in article) was the woman in the car.

http://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?S=9807720&nav=menu682_2

Troopers say an SUV was traveling on a gravel road at about 6:00 p.m. Saturday on Webster Road, when it lost control, hit an embankment and landed on its side.

Troopers say a man was driving and there was a woman and two-year-old child inside.

After the wreck, troopers say the man left in another vehicle and has not been found. Troopers say no ambulance was called, instead the child was dropped off at a nearby fire department. The child did not survive.

Troopers have tracked down the mother, but still have a lot of questions.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. That is bizarre and horrible :^( Poor baby!

[Berry Cool]

2. Something hinky is going on here.

That man was either drunk/high and out of it, or he was deliberately trying to do something here. This is awful.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. Wonder if the woman is alive or not. nt

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. Update with interesting twist in the info so far

OKMULGEE, Okla. (AP) - Authorities say a 2-year-old Beggs boy was killed and attempts to find the driver of the sport utility vehicle in which he was riding haven't been successful.

According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Thomas Ray Dunn was pronounced dead on arrival at Okmulgee Memorial Hospital following the 6 p.m. accident in north Okmulgee County on Saturday.

The patrol says the boy was in an SUV driven by 41-year-old Thomas E. Dunn when the vehicle went out of control on a curve, ran off the road and struck a dirt embankment. Troopers say the truck overturned onto the passenger side, throwing the child out.

A witness who saw the accident took Dunn and the child to the Preston Fire Department, where an ambulance was called.

The patrol says Dunn was last seen following nearby railroad tracks.
http://www.kfsm.com/Global/story.asp?S=9809550

[Raine]

6. Geeeesh the guy's own kid

and he takes off, what a sick piece of shit he is. :-(

[MadMaddie]

7. So the child was not properly restrained

It looks like the driver was the father of the child and just left him

This is tragic...

[rainbow4321]

9. Multiple court entries on the father/driver, Thomas E Dunn

http://www1.odcr.com/results.php?Order=4&Page=1

Multiple pot busts, speeding, no DL, trying to pawn stuff found not to
be his, no car insurance..the list goes on and on.


On edit: the above link goes to the search page of the county's court dockets...won't let me link directly to the page where his multiple listings are. If you do a search, the letters have to be in all caps for some weird reason. Least they do when I have done searches.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

5. Who dropped the child off?

[Whoa_Nelly]

8. From the update article, I think it was the woman who witnessed the accident n/t

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

10. Why would the Troopers allow an injured child to be transported POV?

[rainbow4321]

12. Could be that there were no troopers at the accident site

Sounds like no one, including the witness (?) at the scene, called 911?? The witness picked the toddler up and went to the fire station. Most likely, that is when the troopers got the first call on the accident and THEN they went to the accident site.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

13. The troopers said no ambulance was called.

[rainbow4321]

16. And the trooper was right...

You asked how the trooper AT the accident site could let a witness take off with the baby. I'm suggesting that there were no troopers at the site when the witness picked the toddler up and went to the station. No law enforcement or ambulance even knew there was an accident until they got that first call from the fire department. The witness tells them where she found the child, the car, and the fleeing driver and the troopers *then* go to the accident site.
There is a comment posted (in the comment section) with the article link in my original post. It is from an ambulance staff member who said they got the call from the fire dept so that is where they went to pick up the toddler.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

17. Good thing the woman isn't in California she could be liable for the child's death.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

18. I misread, my apologies.

I thought the witness called 911 and then took the child to the fire station.

David

[rainbow4321]

20. It's very easy to misread...really sketchy details

Even if one reads both articles.

[Arkansas Granny]

19. If it happened on a gravel road, that indicates a rural area. Could be

that the people who took him to the fire station thought it would get him help quicker than waiting for an ambulance. Just guessing.

[rainbow4321]

21. Beggs is not even a one horse town..it's half a horse

Been there..had relatives who lived in Beggs. Had it not been for a witness, the accident scene most likely would not have been found for a while.

[Ian David]

11. No insurance, parents drunk or high, or some combination? n/t

[Marrah_G]

14. I am guessing the man was drunk or high

The man who stuck and killed my cousin hid out over night to sober up before turning himself in. It changed a vert long prison sentence into a very short one since he could not be charged with drunk driving.

[Ian David]

15. He pulled a Cheney, in other words. n/t

[rainbow4321]

22. Update: officials say driver will not be charged because he was in "shock" when he left scene

http://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?S=9810731&nav=menu682_2

OHP says 41-year-old Thomas Dunn was driving the car when it crashed. The highway patrol says they couldn't find him just after the crash, and he was last seen following along some nearby railroad tracks.

He later called in to investigators.

"All the classic symptoms of shock. This was a devastating crash in that the two year old was killed, so we can see that a traumatic event had occurred and the man had wandered off," said OHP Lt. George Brown.

Because of the shock, Dunn won't be charged with leaving the scene of an accident. Investigators are now looking into whether a car seat met federal standards and if it was properly installed.

[petronius]

23. That's not unreasonable, I think. My first thought was that this guy is

a complete shit-stain for running away, but it's not impossible that he just snapped. None of us really knows how we'd react unless we'd been there (although I hope I'd show a little more fortitude...)

Of course, this story could be bogus and he might have just run into the woods to sober up and hide his stash. However, with a dead child involved I'd bet the OHP took a very long hard look at the guy before accepting it was shock...