Boy hit by truck

SOUTH PARIS - Police say how an eight-year-old boy came to be run over by a truck is not clear and might never be.

Paris Police Lieutenant Mike Dailey said Logan Dow was working with his father on a pickup truck at the family home on Christian Ridge Road. The vehicle had been resting on portable ramps, to facilitate repair work but had been rolled off them and was sitting on a level surface. The boy was behind the truck and his father was busy and distracted, so he did not see exactly what took place. Nor could the boy's father see what the lad was doing behind the truck, or what caused it to roll backward.

A PACE ambulance and Paris firefighters responded with the police as soon as a 911 call went out from the scene. The youngster was taken first to Stephens Memorial Hospital, in Norway, and then transferred via LifeFlight helicopter ambulance to Central Maine Medical Center, in Lewiston. Dailey said the next day that the boy's condition had not been made known, but that he was still alive.

Dailey, a certified accident reconstructionist, said  there was no reason to suspect foul play, and that the incident was just an accident.