An infant tragically died after he was run over by a truck on Saturday evening.
According to the Greenville County Deputy Coroner, the incident took place at a family gathering on Carman Trail in Travelers Rest, when the mother of 3 month old Jacob Joel Ford moved her manual transmission truck to let another vehicle leave. Once she had moved the truck she got out but the truck began to roll. She tried to stop it, but as she tried to open the door to get back inside the truck knocked her over. A young girl, who was holding Jacob, fell out of the vehicle to the ground and Jacob was crushed by the truck.
He was taken to Greenville Memorial Hospital but died at 8.35 p.m. from blunt force trauma to the pelvis and torso.
Jacob had a twin brother, Noah Noel Ford, and the South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating to determine whether it was a mechanical failure with the truck that led to the accident.
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