Boy Riding Tricycle Killed
A 5-year-old boy was killed when he pedaled his tricycle into the path of a pizza delivery vehicle, police said Sunday.
The driver of the vehicle, Michael Bruegger, 30, of Orange, was not cited, said Orange Police Lt. Ed Falkenstein. The incident remains under investigation.
The accident occurred at 7:38 p.m. Saturday on a private roadway inside a mobile home trailer park at 1931 E. Meats Ave., Falkenstein said. The boy, whose name was withheld by police, was taken to Kaiser Permanente Hospital-Orange County in Anaheim, where he died.
The driver had just delivered a pizza and was leaving a residence when his vehicle struck the boy, Falkenstein said.
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