Perth family devastated over death of toddler hit by mothers reversing car
Neighbour Navena Kotur Placing flowers and saying a prayer. Photo: Theo Fakos Source: News Corp Australia
ANDREEA Baliban crawled into bed with her parents on Friday morning. The Perth toddler wanted to cuddle, and told her mother: "I love you."
Hours later, this "little princess" with the cheeky smile and big brown eyes was gone.
The two-year-old had been behind mother Rebeca's car when she reversed it out of the driveway of their Holley Place home in Marangaroo.
Andreea was taken to Joondalup Health Campus but succumbed to critical head injuries soon after the accident.
"Our hearts are shattered and words cannot express what we are going through," Andreea's father Lucian said in a statement released late yesterday. "It'll never be the same again. We wait for the day when we will see our little princess again in heaven.
Andrea Baliban, 2, was struck by the car at the edge of the newly-paved driveway at the Holley Place home. Photo: Nine News Source: Channel 9
"We thank everyone whose hearts and thoughts are with us in this difficult time."
The tragedy has devastated the tight-knit community of the Romanian Pentecostal Church in Balga, which the Balibans attended.
Pastor Benjamin Fitui said Rebeca and Lucian were model parents and devoted to their three daughters.
He spent Friday grieving with them at the hospital, while the older two girls stayed with Lucian's family.
"All she said to me all day was 'It's my fault. I lost my daughter, my wonderful daughter'," Pastor Fitui said.
"She was saying, 'My baby, my baby, I did to you this thing, Mum didn't want to do this, Mum didn't want to do this'."
The family, including daughters Ruth, 7, and Lois, 5, were preparing to travel to Romania tomorrow to visit Rebeca's family. It would have been the first time Andreea had met her maternal grandparents.
Close family friend Emilia Lucaciu said Lucian was trying to support his shattered wife.
"No blame is going on," Mts Lucaciu said. "They are each just trying to help each other as much as they can. We are just in shock."
Andreea is the third WA child to die after being hit by a car reversing out of a driveway in six months. In March a 16-month-old girl was killed when she was hit by a reversing car in Bibra Lake, and in December a 14-month-old boy was killed when he was hit by a car in a drive in the Kimberley.
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