11-year-old dies in side-by-side crash involving dog
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By Willard Ferguson and Brandon Robinson
Published: Jun. 27, 2023 at 2:48 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
CRUM, W.Va. (WSAZ/WYMT) – A community is mourning the sudden loss of an 11-year-old boy, in what firefighters call a freak accident involving a pet dog.
Firefighters say the victim and his 12-year-old brother from Gallia County had been visiting family in the Crum area of Wayne County for a few days.
Assistant Chief of the Kermit Volunteer Fire Department Wayne Williamson says they had been getting ready to go home when the 11-year-old said he wanted to go on one more ride.
Williamson says a little after 2:30 p.m. on Stonecoal Road, the 11-and-12-year-olds were riding a side-by-side, which was being driven by the 18-year-old boyfriend of their cousin. Williamson was told a family dog was riding with the boys and jumped down onto the floorboard and stepped on the accelerator pedal, and that’s when the side-by-side went off the road and over an embankment.
“Who would have ever thought a house dog would jump down in the floorboard of a side-by-side and do that?” Williamson said.
