LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- For one reason, a Kentucky couple is sharing the story of how their 18-month-old son died.
Brian Bayers was getting ready to take Jackson to daycare back on February 13. While the boy was playing inside, Brian decided to go warm up the truck and back it up closer to the house, WAVE reported.
“When I got out of the truck, I hopped out of the truck to run to the back door and hopped up on the stoop and the back door was wide open,” Brian told WAVE.
He ran inside the home looking for Jackson but could not find him.
"I went flying out the back door basically to see him on the driveway, and um…he had already been hit at that point in time and I had backed over him,” he told the station. “I never saw him at any point in time. Jackson was hit by the front wheels of the vehicle backing up. When the front wheels back around, he essentially walked right into the side of the vehicle.”
Brian said he knew his son was killed instantly, so he called 911 and then his wife Amanda.
“I immediately wanted to hold him and held him for hours,” Amanda told WAVE. “I think just kissed him and rocked him, we took him back to his room. I just kept saying, ‘Why?'”
The Bayers say they never knew how common back-over accidents are, so they are sharing their story in hopes of raising awareness.
“If we can save one child’s life by this and prevent one family from the kind of devastation that we have faced, that will be his legacy,” Brian said.
H/T WGHP