Six-year-old girl Aria Hill dies after father hits her with golf ball in ‘fluke accident’
- Victim, who was sitting in cart about 15-20 metres away, was struck in the head as father teed off at Utah golf course
A six-year-old Utah girl died on Monday after she was struck in the head by a golf ball hit by her father in what her uncle described as a “fluke accident” that “you couldn’t repeat if you tried”.
The accident occurred shortly after 10am as Aria Hill sat in a cart on a path about 15-20 metres to the left of her father as he teed off at Sleepy Ridge Golf Course in Orem.
His drive struck her in the back of the head at the base of her skull, Lieutenant Trent Colledge of the Orem police told the Daily Herald, and she died after being airlifted to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City.
“A complete, fluke accident – you couldn’t repeat it if you tried,” Hill’s uncle, David Smith, told KUTV. “She just happened to be in the exact wrong place, just directly across from him, when it happened.”
She was silly, spunky, creative, unique, and so so full of love for everyone she came in contact with
The cart, Colledge said, was 45-to-90 degrees to the left of Aria’s father, Kellen.