Linda Scott is giving thanks for her blessings following a tortuous Halloween season.
Scott and her young son Carson Lay were meeting with family in Milwaukee’s Humboldt Park one night to go trick-or-treating when a driver struck several cars before ramming into the two of them and others.
“During the incident when I was knocked out, I was told that my son was under the car,” Scott told WISN 12 News this week. “He was still inside his stroller but right in front of her tire.”
Scott said her fiancé was ultimately able to get Carson out of his stroller before the driver sped away from the scene.
Along with scrapes and bruises, the young boy suffered a small tear on his liver.
“Thankful is the first emotion that comes to mind because my son is here,” the mother said. “I’m here. Thank God. We had people come out of nowhere helping. That shows there’s hope in the world.”
Witnesses later told authorities the car that did all the damage was a dark-colored SUV, a TMJ4 report said Milwaukee County deputies are still investigating.
“What possessed you to hit a mother and her child that was in a stroller and then kept pressing the gas pedal to the point where you almost killed my child?” Scott said. “Especially on a day where kids are trick or treating, it could have been anybody.”
The mother and child have now been released from the hospital. Carson turned a year old on Thursday, the same day that friends of Humboldt Park held a meeting to discuss how to improve traffic safety in the area.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the sheriff’s office.
