A three-year-old girl who was run over in a marae carpark near Dargaville on Saturday is in a stable condition in Starship Children's Hospital.
The girl, Tecyiah-Ann Te Wake, was hit by a reversing car during a tangi at Oturei Marae for 17-year-old Brandon Panapa-Ripia, who fatally collapsed at The Warehouse in Whangarei last Tuesday after being stabbed in the chest in late October.
It is understood there were lots of people, including children, in the carpark at the time and the driver of the car and a front-seat passenger had checked rear-vision mirrors before reversing from their parking space.
But the child was caught under a car wheel that drove across her stomach on the gravel carpark.
The Northland Electricity rescue helicopter flew the girl and her mother to Whangarei Hospital and the injured youngster was later transferred to Starship in Auckland for treatment of her abdominal injuries.
