Girl, 5, dies of injuries when pinned between cars at school

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Police say a girl, 5, has died from her injuries in an accident outside her school in North York Monday. She was being picked up by her father when a Kia vehicle which had been left in gear without a driver began to move, pinning the child between it and another car. She was being picked up from St. Raphael Catholic School on Gade Drive in the area of Keele Street and Wilson Avenue. A police sergeant told CP24 that the girl was about to get into her dad’s car when the KIA advanced and caught her between the two. He said: “The victim was getting into the Mercedes Benz that is parked over there and the Kia was engaged in gear somehow and came on its own without a driver in it and pinned her between the two vehicles.” The danger associated with cars left idling is scarcely noticed by most people. Others however, make it a point never to walk between cars where one or both has the engine running.