A man tells how he tried to save his daughter from a Range Rover on the run | News from the United Kingdom

A man explained how he had tried in vain to prevent his young daughter from being crushed in an accident involving a fugitive Range Rover.

Pearl Melody Black died at the age of 22 when the vehicle fell into a steep driveway and hit a brick wall that then collapsed on it.

The girl was returning home from the park with her father Paul Black, 49, and his younger brother Ace when the driverless Range Rover started rolling.

A survey in Pontypridd, South Wales, revealed that the parking brake was not fully tightened and that the vehicle was not in park mode.

Black, who participated in the show The Voice, said in the survey: "The wall has collapsed under the influence of a domino. It crushed like a can of coke. I have never seen anything like this in my life and hope never again to be. "

Describing the time of the accident, he said: "Pearl was walking to my knee. She had just started walking. I looked down at Pearl and said, "Daddy's hand now, tight."

"I looked up and saw a vehicle coming towards me and gaining speed. The vehicle hit the wall. I threw Ace on the road. I've tried to interpose myself in front of Pearl. I was not fast enough to throw it too.

Black said he attempted to use his body to protect Pearl in the village street of Heolgerrig, near Merthyr Tydfil. He said, "I prefer not to go into details. There was so much blood. I raised the wall of her. I said, "Come back to daddy." I just saw life flowing from those beautiful brown eyes. "

Andrew Williams, 51, a truck driver, had left his Range Rover automatic in a driveway and the parking brake had been tightened two notches out of six, said the survey, and the shifter was between parking and reverse.

Williams told the police that he "had not physically verified" that it was in the park. He said, "I thought everything was fine. When I release the foot brake, as long as it knocks and I lock, I guess everything is fine.

Williams said that he was not pulling the handbrake too far, as it would only "stretch the cables".

PC Gareth Davies, a collision investigator, confirmed that the shift lever was between inverted and parked. He said, "If it had been applied correctly, he would not have fallen off the hill."

Davies stated that if the handbrake or shifter had been properly applied in isolation, they could have restrained the vehicle.

Ace was also injured but recovered completely.

Coroner Andrew Barkley said the vehicle would not have moved if the brake had been properly tightened. "Mr. Williams said that he badumed the shift lever was in the parking position," he said. "Regarding the application of the brake, it did not count the number of clicks. Unfortunately, as we know, it was insufficient. It seems that the problem here was really related to the driver's operation. "

He recorded a finding of accidental death.

Outside the court, Pearl's family asked the Crown Prosecution Service to reconsider the decision not to prosecute Williams following the death last August. They said in a statement, "Our hearts are broken and our lives will never be the same again."