"Baby boy dies after being hit by government (DoCS / FACS) car in driveway of Ipswich home"
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- Category: Child Protection Australia media articles
- Created: Monday, 12 January 2015 23:30
- Written by Brittany Vonow, Ruth McCosker. Rhian Deutrom - The Courier-Mail
UPDATE: A Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services spokesman has this afternoon confirmed that a department car was involved in an incident yesterday afternoon in which a young boy died..
“The department is providing the utmost care and support to both family members and staff,” he said.
“The department will review this incident and this review will also be externally scrutinised. The police are continuing their investigation and will also prepare a report for the coroner’s office.”
The Department of Child Safety said due to ongoing investigations it did not intend on commenting further.
Earlier:15 month-old boy killed yesterday when he was hit by a car reversing down the driveway of his Ipswich home has been remembered as a “happy-go-lucky” child with a “smile that could lighten up a sad face”.
Braxton James Nowlan, who would have turned two in August, was hit and killed on the driveway outside his Ripley home by a government car in the tragic accident.
