Mother of traffic victim says truck driver at fault

The Mennonite farmer whose vehicle knocked down and killed an eight year old girl in Blackman Eddy Village on Tuesday evening has been charged with a number of traffic related offenses. Forty- seven year old Otto Reimer now faces charges of driving without due care and attention, manslaughter by negligence and causing death by careless conduct, in addition to driving an unlicensed motor vehicle. While police originally said that Aysha Madisson rode in front of the moving truck, the girl’s mother Therese Madisson called News Five this morning to say that wasn’t the way the accident happened.

Therese Madisson, Mother of the Deceased

“I sent her to go and give a message to my sister-in-law’s little kids for me. She was coming back, nearly got home when the accident happened. I heard the bang right from my house and as soon as I heard the bang, I rushed outside. The pickup that the man was driving had a trailer on the back with five hundred sacks of fertilizers on it and the skid mark is on the road that could show where that man loose control and went on the left hand side of the road. And my little girl was way off that road, way off the road. The back of that trailer hit her and fling her in the road. And the Mennonites man didn’t even bother come out. The Mennonites man don’t even know who is the child’s parents; he don’t even bother come out and ask we if we o.k. – if the kid o.k. – nothing. I haven’t seen his face yet.

Yesterday, one of his members came over to see us and he said the man was calling for police that’s why he didn’t get out. I can’t see the sense of that. He was acting like it was a dog he killed. How he couldn’t come and check if my little girl was alive, before calling the police. I can’t believe it; he is so cruel. I don’t know if he has any kid, how could he do something like that?”

Aysha Madisson was buried this afternoon in Blackman Eddy Village.