06:08 PM EDT on Sunday, April 10, 2005

Associated Press

GRANITE FALLS — A boy died after being crushed between two sport utility vehicles outside his home, police said.

The accident happened about 6 p.m. Friday in the driveway of the boy's Granite Falls home when Tyler Handy, 5, was caught between SUVs driven by his mother and her husband, said Trooper Clifton Mangum of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.

The boy's mother, 25-year-old Stephanie Ledford, was in a Toyota 4Runner. Mangum said husband Terry Ledford's Ford Expedition was parked behind her vehicle.

Terry Ledford was picking up Tyler to take him to a baseball game and was outside talking to Stephanie Ledford, when her foot slipped off the brake of her car.

Neither person knew the child had walked between the vehicles when the mother's car rolled backward.

Neighbors tried to revive the child before emergency personnel arrived, but Tyler never regained consciousness, Mangum said.

The trooper said no charges were expected because "it was a freak accident. They just didn't realize that the boy was there."