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Toddler Struck, Killed by Father’s Excavator

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From Times Wire Reports

A 2-year-old girl died when her father ran over her with an earth-moving vehicle, state police said.

Alyssa McDeavitt was struck by the Bobcat compact excavator that her father, Richard McDeavitt, 25, was backing off a trailer. “It was just a very sad, very tragic accident,” State Trooper David Bayer said.

The toddler had been playing with her 4-year-old brother and other children in the yard of their Jefferson home.

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