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A four-year-old girl was struck by a pick-up truck and killed in Bowness Friday evening after running into the road during a dog fight, Calgary Police said.

The child and her parents were about to cross the the street at the intersection of 47th Avenue and 79th Street N.W. at about 8:15 p.m. when the family’s dog began to wrangle with another dog, diverting the parents’ attention.

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“There was a bit of chaos going on at the time,” said Staff Sgt. Paul Stacey, of the Calgary Police’s traffic division.

“The truck that ultimately ran over the girl had actually stopped thinking they were going to cross the road, and then the parents waved the driver on. The driver went, and unbeknownst to the parents, the girl ran out and got hit.”

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Paramedics determined that the girl had died at the scene from traumatic head injuries, Stacey said.

“It doesn’t appear to be the driver’s fault,” he said, noting that alcohol and speed were not believed to be involved in the incident.

“It’s not typical of a pedestrian crash, that’s for sure. There’s all the elements of this being as unfortunate as it possibly could be.”

Though the Calgary Police are still investigating the incident, Stacey said it’s unlikely that charges will be pressed against either the parents or the driver, a female.

“I know people have been hard on both drivers and pedestrians lately, each saying that the other’s at fault for these kind of crashes,” he said.

“This case is so not typical of the other ones. This doesn’t get lumped into any kind of category.”