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http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/7140249/detail.htmlGirl Pinned Under Car While Running After Ice Cream Truck
POSTED: 10:50 pm PST February 16, 2006
UPDATED: 11:06 pm PST February 16, 2006
SAN DIEGO -- A 5-year-old girl was hit by a car while rushing to an ice cream truck, NBC 7/39 reported.
The incident occurred in the 3100 block of K street on Thursday. According to police, the ice cream truck was stopped and a car started to pass it when the girl darted out.
She was hit and pinned beneath the car.
Nearby residents came to the girl's rescue.
http://www.local6.com/news/6945930/detail.htmlChild Dies After Being Dragged By Ice Cream Truck
POSTED: 4:58 pm EST February 11, 2006
MANATEE, Fla. -- A 15-month-old boy died when he was hit by an ice cream truck and dragged behind the vehicle, authorities said.
Raymundo Aguirre was dragged about 900 feet before neighbors at a mobile home park stopped the truck Friday, said Florida Highway Patrol Cpl. Dave McInturff.
The boy was being cared for by a baby sitter, who had taken him and two other children to the truck for ice cream, McInturff said. When they returned to their mobile home, Raymundo was missing, McInturff said.
Neighbors who had stopped the truck saw the child after the driver backed up. The boy died while being transported to Manatee Memorial Hospital.
The truck driver, Sheila Patel, 60, will not be charged but will receive a citation for having improper signage on the truck, troopers said.
Patel said she did not believe she hit the child. She said she had been driving through the park at about 5 mph.
Manatee County's sheriff's office considered a possible child negligence case against the baby sitter but determined the death was an accident, Detective Dennis Valone said.
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/florida/news-article.aspx?storyid=51533MANATEE, FL (AP) -- Authorities say a 15-month-old boy died when he was hit by an ice cream truck and dragged behind the vehicle. The Florida Highway Patrol says Raymundo Aguirre was dragged for about 900 feet -- about two and a half football fields -- before neighbors at a mobile home park stopped the truck.
The boy was being cared for by a baby sitter, who had taken him and two other children to the truck for ice cream. When they returned to their mobile home, Raymundo was missing.
Neighbors who had stopped the truck saw the child after the driver backed up. The boy died while being transported to Manatee Memorial Hospital.
The driver of the truck will not be charged but will receive a citation for having improper signage on the truck.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060211/NEWS/602110306&Page=2Ice cream truck runs over, kills boy at mobile home park
BY CHRISTOPHER O'DONNELL
MANATEE COUNTY -- Nearly every day for the last nine years, Sushila Patel's ice cream truck brought Popsicles and smiles to the Wayside Glen mobile home park.
On Friday, it brought tragedy and tears.
The truck ran over a 11/2-year-old boy and dragged him for more than 1,000 feet through the park, authorities said.
Raymundo Aguirre Jr. died after being taken to Manatee Memorial Hospital.
A trail of blood led away from the mobile home where a neighbor was caring for Raymundo. The boy apparently got away from the baby sitter, who Patel said stopped to talk to her but didn't buy anything.
Raymundo's T-shirt, stained with blood and oil, marked the spot where medics treated him. The accident occurred at about 4:15 p.m.
Raymundo Aguirre Sr. said he and his family moved to the United States from Michoacan, Mexico, two years ago.
The mother, Gloria Aguirre, who is pregnant, works long shifts in a factory. The Aguirres also have a 2-year-old daughter.
After hearing the news, family members gathered at Manatee Memorial Hospital. Outside the hospital's emergency room, they prayed.
The accident left residents of the park shocked.
"I saw him lying on the ground. I thought he fell," said James White, 13. "It's rough seeing something like that."
Wayside Glen, on 14th Street West, was a regular stop on Patel's route. She denied running over the boy, insisting that she discovered him lying bleeding and injured as she drove along.
"I didn't do anything; someone must have run him over and left him there," said Patel, 60. "I saw the baby lying there; it didn't have shoes or socks."
But authorities said her story didn't jibe with that of witnesses.
They examined the bottom of her truck and called a tow truck to raise it so they could photograph its underside.
"The male got away from the baby sitter somehow, got in front of the truck and was dragged 1,000 feet," said Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. James Vaught.
Vaught said Patel only stopped when neighbors flagged her down.
One witness said he saw Patel backing away from the spot where the boy lay. Patel then administered CPR to the stricken boy.
Patel is unlikely to face charges related to the accident but may be cited for not having adequate safety notices on her truck, Vaught said.
The mobile home park's narrow streets, many of which are one way, have 5 mph speed limits posted, but they are rarely followed, said resident John Phelps.
"I'm surprised this hasn't happened sooner," he said.
Phelps added that Patel's ice-cream truck is one of the few that don't speed.
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=25352Bradenton, Florida -
Sheila Patel, ice cream truck driver:
"No, I didn't hit the child."
As investigators examined her ice cream truck, on the route she's been driving more than six years, Sheila Patel stood in disbelief convinced she did not hit Raymundo Aguirre, saying the proof is how far the child's body was found in front of her truck.
Sheila Patel, ice cream truck driver:
"I'm upset because i didn't do nothing wrong. I always watch the kids. I always go so slow. I have all these signs on my truck go slow stop for the kids always stop for the children."
Florida Highway Patrol tells a different story. Troopers say the child's lifeless body was found in front of the truck because Patel backed up after witnesses alerted her to what happened.
Cpl. Dave McInturff, Florida Highway Patrol:
"She had her music going. She didn't see the child.
This is a very small child it's a one-year-old baby there was no way she could have seen the child up over this truck and she just wasn't aware of it until she was stopped."
Beverly Avalle and her husband Richard, trained in C.P.R ran out to help, but say it was too late.
Richard Avalle, neighbor:
"I ran over to the baby and the baby was pretty well banged up."
Authorities say Aguirre was transported to a nearby hospital but his injuries were just too much.
Investigators say no charges will be filed against neither the ice cream truck driver nor the baby-sitter responsible for watching the boy.
http://www.click2houston.com/news/7080654/detail.htmlGirl, 5, Fatally Run Over After Buying Ice Cream
Charges Pending Against Driver
POSTED: 10:15 am CST February 15, 2006
UPDATED: 10:23 am CST February 15, 2006
HOUSTON -- Charges are still pending against a man whose vehicle struck and killed a 5-year-old girl buying ice cream in southwest Houston.
Houston police investigating the accident said the girl was crossing the street when a car, traveling east on Sharpview Drive, hit her near Bintliff Drive at about 5:40 p.m.
Police said the car was trying to pass by the ice cream truck when the 38-year-old driver's vehicle hit the girl.
The identities of the victim and driver have not been released.
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/breaking_news/13844634.htmToddler hit by truck, dies
SYLVIA LIM
Herald Staff Writer
BRADENTON - A 15-month-old boy was dragged to his death after he was hit by an ice cream truck in a Bradenton mobile home park this afternoon, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Raymundo Aguirre got caught under the truck and was dragged for approximately 900 feet before witnesses stopped the truck, said Florida Highway Patrol Cpl. Dave McInturff.
The boy died while being transported to Manatee Memorial Hospital
Troopers said the driver of the truck, Sheila Patel, 60, would not be charged. They did issue her a citation for having improper signage on the truck.
The accident happened about 4:14 p.m. in the Wayside Glen Mobile Home Park, 5120 14th St. W.
Raymundo and two other children were being cared for by a babysitter. The babysitter, whose name was not released, and the children went together to buy ice cream, but when they returned to the trailer, Raymundo was missing, McInturff said.
Neighbors who had stopped the ice cream truck saw the child after Patel backed up.
The child had a slight pulse, and blood covered one side of his head, said Beverly Avalle, a neighbor who ran over to help the child.
He had no apparent injuries, except for on the top of his right foot. A sock and shoe were missing, Avalle said.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcon...vendors_06tex.ART.State.Edition1.9177835.htmlGetting the scoop on the ice cream man
Vendors to be screened for sexual offenses, crimes against children
12:00 AM CST on Monday, February 6, 2006
By DAVID McLEMORE / The Dallas Morning News
SAN ANTONIO JOURNAL SAN ANTONIO – No one's safe from the relentless scrutiny of public safety officials. Now, they're going after the ice cream man and the raspa guy.A San Antonio city ordinance that went into effect Jan. 1 requires all mobile food vendors to pay $49 for a thorough criminal background check. And any vendor convicted of a sex offense or offense against a child will be refused a vending license.
[Click image for a larger version] J. MICHAEL SHORT/Special Contributor
J. MICHAEL SHORT/Special Contributor
Scott Scantlin sells raspas, or snow cones, to Maria De La Cruz and parents Fernando and Maria at the Alamo. San Antonio vendors must pay $49 for background checks on top of their license fee.
The new ordinance covers the folks who sell hamburgers and fried pies out of the worksite lunch wagon, the ice cream man and his brightly colored van cruising the neighborhood and the raspa – snow cones to the rest of the state – sellers, fixtures in front of the Alamo for generations.
For Lance Cross, the latest addition to public safety in the Alamo City doesn't make a lot of sense.
"It's kind of crazy," said Mr. Cross, who has dispensed raspas, soft drinks and tourist information downtown for the past four years. "I mean, who's going to attack anyone from behind a raspa stand?"
City Council member Richard Perez, author of the ordinance, hopes no one will. But the sad reality of the times made it necessary, he said, to look more closely at those who come in contact with children.
"This all started when I received an e-mail from a nice lady in my district," Mr. Perez said. "She was concerned that the man driving the ice cream truck in her neighborhood kept hitting on her 14-year-old daughter and other young girls. It made us think we needed to take a closer look at the people who come close to our kids right in our own neighborhoods."
The ordinance requires all mobile food vendors to pay $49 for three complete law enforcement background checks by local police, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the FBI. "This isn't a money-maker for the city," Mr. Perez said.
He acknowledges that the new requirement hasn't been received with universal approval by the vendors.
"There's a lot of vendors convinced this is just a way for the city to get more money off us," said Mr. Cross. "They already get $350 a year for the vendor's license. If they'd just raised that fee and used it for background checks, we wouldn't be squawking so much."
He shrugged. "But all this really means is that we'll have to get the background check if we want to operate in the city," Mr. Cross said. "OK, I guess, but I sure don't know anyone who's going to try to do something to a kid."
The new rule also requires ice cream truck vendors to sell their confections only on the sidewalk side of the vehicle and to stop running through residential neighborhoods within 30 minutes after sunset. A summertime exemption lets the ice cream trucks roll until 10 p.m., however.
"We were getting complaints of these ice cream trucks going through the neighborhoods at 11 p.m. or later," Mr. Perez said. "There didn't seem to be any real need for that."
The city has sent off 300 names for background checks, Mr. Perez said. They expect nearly 1,400 background checks to be run.
"We studied this pretty hard for five or six months, looking at all the implications, and felt that it was worthwhile to help protect the children," Mr. Perez said, noting that the ice cream truck vendors have extraordinarily close contact with children in their own neighborhoods.
"Some of the vendors asked why we weren't requiring Baskin-Robbins or Haagen-Dazs shops to get background checks," he said. "And I told them that Haagen-Dazs isn't driving a truck through the neighborhoods and attracting kids right in front of our houses."
http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/ice-cream-man-convicted-of-selling-pirated-copies-to-kids/Ice cream man convicted of selling pirated copies to kids
Posted Feb 6th 2006 1:15PM by Ryan Block
Filed under: Gaming
If only we'd thought of selling pirated DVDs, CDs, and PlayStation / Xbox / PC games out of the trusty Engadget ice cream truck to the impressionable youth we've long since been pushing sweets on, but alas that scam has apparently already landed one William Agnew in the slammer. Dude got busted and fessed up to selling such wares (warez?) by the truckful -- literally -- after being caught with four thousand pirated discs. So to all you would-be software copiers out there looking to get in on the racket, remember: intellectual property theft may well get you put away, so stick to the straight and narrow and just keep on peddling sweets to increasingly sedentary obese kids with type b diabetes, ok?
