Tragedy in Australia, where little Imogen Lennon died of suffocation at the age of 5 while eating her favorite snack: she was in the car with her mother on the way back from swimming lessons.
He ate his snacks preferably in the car with mom when a bite it went sideways and there was nothing for them to do.
She choked to death when she was only 5 years old Imogen Lennon in front of mom when they walked home together a Canowindrain west-central New South Wales, in Australia. Her story, which took place on January 16 but was only told in the last few hours by a family friend, sent the entire country into shock.
According to local press reconstructions, the little girl returned from one swimming lessons. She was in the back seat of her mother Samantha’s car, who had fed her her favorite snack, a type of hot dog. Then the tragedy.
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The woman, immediately startled, called an ambulance but was told that at that moment they were too far from the nearest hospital and the ambulance would not arrive on time. Then, in a panic, she accompanied her daughter into herself hospital with the help of a passerby. But despite the efforts Imogen died soon after.
“Despite Sam’s heroic efforts, a call to the hospital and the help of a bystander, it was Samantha herself who escorted her daughter to the hospital because they were too far away for help to intervene,” reads a GoFundMe page that provided after the death of Samantha the little girl was opened by a family friend, Tamarato collect money for the funeral.
“It’s a way to understand such a tragic loss unthinkable, there are no words that can accurately describe how broken Imogen’s family is. Imogen is survived by her mother and father, Bill, along with two older brothers, Hayden and Bailey, and sister, Tamzin.