A toddler who was critically injured in a car crash in Knox County Monday afternoon has died, officials said.
Kentucky State Police originally reported the 22-month-old had died, but then later said she was alive at the University of Kentucky Hospital in critical condition.
However, officials said the toddler died at 2:05 p.m. Tuesday. She has been identified as Rylan Rose of Barbourville.
The Fayette County coroner said Rose died of traumatic brain injury. Her death has been ruled as accidental.
Police say the driver of a car stopped along Maggie Cane Road in Barbourville so two small kids could get out of the road, but he didn’t see a third child, the toddler, next to his car when he pulled out. The 22-month-old girl fell underneath the vehicle and the back tire struck her.
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EMS took the victim to Knox County Hospital, and she was then airlifted to UK Hospital.
The accident remains under investigation, but police say drugs nor alcohol are suspected. No charges have been filed.
