Child almost drowns after falling into canal

A one-year-old boy was flown to Primary Children’s Medical Center Wednesday night, after almost drowning in a canal west of Tremonton.

Box Elder County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Dale Ward said a mother was pushing the child in a stroller with her three other children, along a country road in Bothwell around 9:00 p.m. When the group approached an intersection, one of the children who was riding a bike, failed to stop. As the mother let go of the stroller temporarily to grab the five-year-old, it rolled into the canal.

Deputies report the mother immediately jumped into the water and pulled the stroller out, but the toddler had come out of the stroller. After looking for the child unsuccessfully, the mother got out and ran to the other side of the road and found the child in the canal after he had gone through a culvert under the road.

Ward said the baby was unresponsive and CPR was started by a passerby. The child was revived and transported to Bear River Valley Hospital by ambulance. He was transferred to Primary Children’s, where doctors report he is doing fine.

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