Michigan girl, 7, survives father’s drunk crash – but is killed by another car as she goes to get him help
DeSandra Thomas sent text messages to police before being struck by a car near Detroit’s airport
Michigan police say a seven-year-old girl was struck and killed as she tried to get help after her father drunkenly crashed into an abandoned vehicle on an interstate in suburban Detroit.
State police spokesman Lieutenant Mike Shaw says DeSandra Thomas sent text messages to police about her father’s crash before she was struck on I-94 near Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus early Sunday. She died instantly.
Shaw says a driver called state police to say she might have hit a pedestrian.
He says DeSandra’s father was drunk when he got into his car at around 3.30am and that his daughter died “because of a decision that an adult made”.
The girl’s mother, Sandria Burts, hopes DeSandra’s father is not charged. She says losing their daughter is “torture enough”.
