Toddler Dies After Part Flies Off Truck at Family Party

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A young girl died in a freak accident after an air-conditioning compressor plate came off of a truck and hit her in the head last Sunday evening.

Two-year-old Delilah Hunt was sitting on a four-wheeler at a family birthday party in Gordonville, Texas on July 11 when family members just feet away turned on a nearby truck. A part on the Chevy pick-up flew off the engine tank and struck her in the head. 

Delilah was flown in critical condition to Children’s Medical Center in nearby Dallas, where she was later taken off of life support. She was pronounced dead three days later on July 14.

First responders told Fox news affiliate KXII that had she been even a foot from where she was, she likely would have survived.

‘It was just a random freak accident,’ said Tim Bilderback, an EMS who responded to Sunday’s tragic scene. 

‘If she was anywhere besides the spot she was sitting in, the injury would not have been as bad. Nobody expects that to happen.’

Martina Steinbrook, Delilah’s aunt, said the family still is trying to process the tragedy a week later.

‘(I’m) hurt, not mad at anybody for it because it was a freak accident,’ said Steinbrook. ‘We’re all in shock.’

Family members said her brain pressure reached a critical level due to the injuries she sustained from the falling compressor plate.

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Meanwhile, relatives are now forced to arrange a burial as they mourn the loss of ‘spunkiest’ little girl there was, according to Delilah’s grandmother, Tina Heineken.

‘She was the smartest little two-year-old there was and [the] spunkiest; she just loved the world,’ said Heineken. ‘She’s gotta come back to us.’

The family has set up a GoFundMe in the wake of Delilah’s death.

2 thoughts on “Toddler Dies After Part Flies Off Truck at Family Party

  1. Sometimes lives are cut short and young Souls brought back to Heaven sooner than we want. It is all part of God’s plan for us. Delilah was called home and left a huge hole in many hearts! Her pic shows how wonderful her young Spirit was. She is not afraid but in God’s protective arms, probably waiting to explore Heaven and make the Angel’s joyously laugh and sing…RIP little one.

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