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<i>Girl Hiding In Leaf Pile Dies After Father Parks Car On Top Of Her
POSTED: 3:24 PM EST November 4, 2004


METHUEN, Mass. -- A 10-year-old girl was killed when her father parked his truck in a pile of leaves in which she and a friend were hiding, the family said. The other girl was seriously injured.







Family members said 36-year-old construction worker James Gravel did not know he had run over the girls until he got out and heard daughter Natalie calling him.

"She said, 'Daddy, I can't breathe,"' said Gravel's sister, Jennifer Gravel.

Natalie died at a hospital of head and chest injuries. Eight-year-old Meredith Reid was in critical condition Thursday.

Police said no charges were planned.

Gravel's two other children, ages 11 and 7, were in the truck at the time. </i>

I always park my car ON large piles of leaves too.

Tragic, tragic story.

"Molon labe".
Leonidas, King of Sparta,
Thermopylae, 480 B.C.