LAYTON, Utah — It’s a phone call nobody wants to receive.
“My sister had called me and told me that she had passed away, that she didn't make it,” Lauren Paskett said through tears.
Paskett is helping her sister Angela pick up the pieces after she lost her little girl on Friday. Paskett said Angela went to the car wash and her children were in a playground area with a gate. She said 2-year-old Ada wanted her mom, so her 4-year-old sister opened the gate.
They started walking hand in hand when a truck came, hitting Ada.
“Her sister said that she was holding her hand, and she tried to stop it, and she said she couldn’t, he didn’t see, but she tried to put her hands up and say stop," Paskett said.
Ada was flown to a nearby hospital, where she later died .
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