A 2-year-old died on Valentine’s Day. The driver who hit him will face charges, cops say
A 2-year-old was run over as he stood with his parents under a roadside tent displaying Valentine’s Day merchandise Friday in South Miami-Dade. Pinned under the car, he later died.
A gray Dodge sedan was headed up U.S. 1 when the driver, 42-year-old Hanskabell Amargos, lost control and drove off the road into the tent, which was set up on Southwest 296th Street, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
Amargos hit Anthony De Leon, 2, FHP said.
When the car came to a stop, the boy was underneath, Local 10 reported. Witnesses told the TV station that the car had come out of a Spitzer dealership, at 30075 S. Dixie Hwy., before it crashed into the tent.
An owner of a nearby auto shop saw the crash and ran across the street with a jack to try to lift the car off the 3-year-old.
Alex Correa told WSVN that people in the area started trying to save the boy.
“I heard everybody screaming and I just ran over there, I saw them trying to lift the car, I didn’t know why,” Correa told WSVN. “One guy got a pipe, I don’t know from where, he put it under and that helped a little bit. We all just lifted on the passenger side.
The boy was taken to a local hospital as a trauma alert, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said.
He later died, FHP said. His name was not released.
Authorities have not identified the driver of the car and said if charges against Amargos are pending.
This story was originally published February 14, 2020 at 6:14 PM.
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