A father broke down and sobbed as he told an inquest how he accidentally knocked over and killed his two-year-old son as he went to greet him.
Groundworker Andrew Bake, 40, of Sherwood Way, Cudworth, said he returned home from work on May 26 to find a car parked where he normally parked his van.
He manoeuvred the van into another space but did not realise his son, AJ, had run out of the house and behind the vehicle. He told the hearing: “I didn’t see him at all. I never heard anything until I saw the lady whose car was parked running and screaming ‘stop’.”
Having got out of the van, Andrew saw AJ was trapped by the front wheel and moved the van forwards to free him.
Assistant deputy coroner Julian Fox urged the parents to regard themselves 'beyond reproach' before recording a verdict of accidental death. More in this week's Chronicle.
