A year and a half later, Jamie Abercrombie's loss is still unbearable.

"I'm just taking it day by day," she said. "It's not easy."

In East Dallas, a memorial marks the spot where she lost her 9-year-old son, Max.

"I think about him every day," she said. "It's hard. It's hard."

Scooter ride ends in heartbreak

Abercrombie said her son was riding his scooter near the intersection of Materhorn Drive and San Paula Avenue, close to his grandmother's house, when a pickup struck him.

"I saw my baby riding on the sidewalk and next thing I know I look up and everybody was screaming and running towards him," she said. "I was the first one to grab him and hold him and realize what had happened. I immediately started doing CPR on him and he was not... He had a pulse, but he was not conscious."

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