BEAUMONT, Texas A trailer carrying children in a Christmas parade struck and killed a 10-year-old girl who had jumped out of a pickup truck driving among the floats Saturday, police said.

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The girl had been jumping on and right side for the time of the parade path and was told to pause before falling and hitting her head, before-mentioned Monica Smith, a Beaumont police dispatcher. The girl was then struck by the trailer behind her.

A number of parade watchers saw the accident unfold, Beaumont police functionary Crystal Holmes told Beaumont television station KBMT.

Authorities said the girl was taken to a hospital with severe head injuries and pronounced dead.

Smith did not have any one details about what group the girl was through in the parade.

Stephanie Molina, who attended the parade but didn’cheek by jowl see the accident, said the city had considered canceling the Christmas parade this year because of the destruction worked to the area by Hurricane Ike. Molina works for the city’s convention and critic’s office.

“We decided to do this for the community because we needed something positive,” she reported.

Hundreds attended the parade in downtown Beaumont. The eminent marshall was former Buffalo Bills tight extremity Kevin Everett, a native of nearby Port Arthur who was temporarily paralyzed from the neck along the course of while attempting to make a weapons in a game last season.

The Christmas show off accident was the secondary this week in Texas. Ten members of a Cub Scout troop in Overton were injured Monday when they were struck by a pickup truck. The 82-year-old driver was charged with reckless driving.

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