[GirlShortstop]

Dianne Anthony rode over her son Matthew's chest and legs repeatedly Tuesday with the 4,600-pound van, thinking that a landscape timber near her front lawn was blocking her way, Germantown Police Lt. Peter Hoell said.

Oh my God!

[DB]

That's just plain nuts!

[Formermasslurker]

I know accidents happen but this is just rediculous. I mean how many peices of landscaping timber do you know of that scream out in pain.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Thank God the child is OK. But this is a stupid accident. "I thought I was running into the wall so I backed up and hit it again, 4 times".

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

People bitch about everything about cars.
Execpt the nut behind the wheel !

[PBRSTREETGANG]

She assumed she hit the landscape timber

Assuming her story is correct, she would purposely run her van over a landscape timber 3 more times after hitting it once?

[Wolfie]

A proud graduate of the "Clara Harris Driving School", no doubt.

[Slainte]

Imagine the outcry if she been driving an SUV

[RGSpincich]

I don't think that she ever actually rolled completely over the child. It sounds like she kept rolling back to what she thought was a landscape timber planted adjacent to the driveway. She probably kept trying to steer around it until it became obvious it wasn't the timber that was hitting her tires.

[moyden]

You people are a bunch of vindictive thugs. It was an A-C-C-I-D-E-N-T.

If you want a risk-free utopia where every accident is punished, move to Cuba or France.

[Between the Lines]

She said at least 58 children died after similar accidents last year. This is truly an epidemic.

We absolutely must quit using children as landscape timbers. 58 have died already. How long must this go on?

[Pagey]

"landscape timber"

Is this wood that is along the driveway? Is that what it is? Did the Police make her take a D.U.I. test? How does one live with oneself after situations like that? The questions abound.

[cinFLA]

"Anthony's father, Kenneth Hess, said he was watching his daughter's three young boys while she went to the van to prepare to drive another son to school.

Hess had Matthew on his lap, but the boy got off and walked outside with his brother, he said. "

How many kids were there?