Jason Baxter-Schroder, aged 3 years, was struck and killed by a car backing out of a driveway. Photo / Supplied
A mother whose 3-year-old son was killed by a car reversing out of a stranger's driveway holds no grudge against the driver.
Jason Samuel Mathew Baxter-Schroder was riding a foot scooter on the footpath when he was caught in the car's path in Blenheim's Graham Street, about 1.30pm
on Sunday. It is believed the female driver did not see him.
"He went to the hospital ... but they said they couldn't get his heart going again," Jason's devastated mother, Kellie Baxter, 24, told the Herald.
"And he died at the hospital probably about an hour after he got hit by the car.
"I'm just waiting for someone to wake me up and tell me that it's a nightmare or something. It's just all too unreal at the moment."
Jason was in the care at the time of a friend of Ms Baxter's, who also had her own two children with her.
The group were walking back from a trip to a park and Jason was "scooting ahead as kids do" when the car came out and hit him.
Ms Baxter was at work when she got the terrible news. She has since met the family of the driver, and was waiting yesterday to get in touch with her directly.
She cannot blame the driver. "It's just one of those things that happen. Wrong place, wrong time, nobody's fault. It's a terrible thing that just happens."
Jason "was just an active 3-year-old boy that everyone loved. Everyone that met him just instantly liked him," Ms Baxter said.
Sergeant Mike Porter of Blenheim police said no decision has yet been made on who was at fault, and whether charges would be laid.
