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Posted: Saturday, 08 September 2007 9:26AM

Boy Jumps From SUV Being Towed



AURORA, Ill. (CBS 2)  -- A four-year-old Naperville boy is nursing some scrapes and bruises Friday evening, after falling out of a moving SUV on a tow truck. CBS 2’s West Suburban Bureau Chief Mike Puccinelli reports on the child’s wild ride.

Workers at Select Recovery in Aurora repossessed a Ford Excursion Thursday evening. The trouble is they didn't notice that four-year-old Fashawn Parker was in the backseat.

"Apparently they had given the vehicle a cursory check," said Dan Ferrelli an Aurora Police spokespeson. "They looked through the front windows. They didn't find anything in there and were unaware that the boy was in the back."

Police say the driver of the Excursion had stopped by an Aurora home to pick up another child when the vehicle was towed. The man was parked the SUV called 911.

"He had said that a vehicle he was driving that belonged to one of his relatives was being towed away and that there was a four-year-old boy inside of it," said Ferrelli.

When the tow truck driver slowed whole driving through a construction zone, Parker, a Naperville resident, decided to take matters into his own hands along Indian Trail Road.

"Apparently he figured out how to open the door and he jumped out," Ferrelli said.

Another member of the towing crew saw the boy tumble out and called police.

"It was probably fortunate in this instance that the tow truck driver driving westbound on Indian Trail Road, had to basically go through a construction zone where traffic was congested and he wasn't going at a high rate of speed," Ferrelli said.

Parker was treated at a hospital and released. At this point, no charges are expected.

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