GREEN LAKE, Wis. — A Green Lake family is pushing for legislative change after learning the 85-year-old woman who struck and killed their 12-year-old son while he was riding his bike will not face criminal charges.

Emmet Zodrow was killed this summer near the Green Lake Library while riding his bicycle on the sidewalk. Police say Jean Woolley of Germantown was attempting to park her car when she hit the boy, pressing the accelerator twice instead of the brake.

"He loved this town. He loved life so much. Everybody knew it. You just felt it when he was around," said Angela Zodrow, Emmet's mother.

Body camera footage shows Woolley explaining what happened immediately after the crash.

"I put the brake on and it was the accelerator, and then I panicked and pushed it harder," Woolley said in

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