The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a two-year-old boy was struck and killed by a truck in a Greenwood trailer park.
It happened at 4:39 p.m. Monday outside the victim’s home in the Winterbrook Mobile Home Park in the 4300 block of County Line Road, according to a Johnson County Sheriff’s Office news release.
The driver, a 59-year-old Winterbrook employee, was leaving a job site within the trailer park. At an intersection, while turning right, the truck hit something in the road. The man got out to see what he had hit and determined it was the two-year-old boy, identified as Isaiah Bonds, according to an accident report.
Bonds sustained a severe head injury and was pronounced dead at the scene by the Johnson County Coroner’s Office, Sheriff Duane Burgess said.
The man told deputies he checked the intersection before turning, but the height of his truck likely prevented him from seeing the toddler in the road, the report says.
The investigation is ongoing, and investigators are awaiting the results of a blood test for alcohol and drugs, Burgess said. The driver and family are cooperating with law enforcement and the sheriff’s office is unlikely to request any charges given the nature of the accident, he said.
