SCHP Investigating After Toddler Hit and Killed in Daycare Parking Lot

Deputies said an Anderson County community is “shook to its core” after what they described as a “tragic accident.”

A 3-year-old girl was killed Wednesday morning after a crash in the parking lot of a preschool, according to the coroner’s office. Officials with the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office said the little girl was getting out of a car in the drop-off line at Covenant Christian Academy just after 8 a.m. when she was hit by the same car. South Carolina Highway Patrol Master Trooper Mitchell Ridgeway with more…

The little girl, who’s name has not been released, was taken to AnMed where she died around 8:45 a.m. of a traumatic brain injury and blunt force trauma, the coroner said.