Arlington police are investigating an accident that killed a baby in a stroller on South Cooper Street this morning.
The crash happened shortly before 9 a.m. when a pickup collided with a white Chrysler 300 turning left at California Lane. The pickup then lost control and hit a father waiting to cross the street with his infant son, according to police.
Police investigate a crash that killed an infant in South Arlington. (Photos by Greg Castillo/Staff)
Witness Alicia Hopkins, 39, watched the crash in shock, a few moments after she saw the father and son walking. She said the victims were waiting to cross on the sidewalk when they were hit.
“He was right where he was supposed to be,” she said. “He wasn’t doing anything wrong.”
Witnesses ran to help the father, but 7-month-old David Bingenheimer died at the scene, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office. They later placed a blanket over the boy as his father screamed helplessly in the street.
The father and two drivers were also injured but were expected to survive.
All southbound lanes of Cooper were closed, along with one northbound lane, while police investigated the crash. The street was reopened later in the afternoon.
The crumpled stroller and pieces of the pickup that hit it littered the southbound lanes of Cooper.
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