TULLYTOWN, Pa. -- A 2-year-old child is dead and the child's father in custody after a crash in Pennsylvania that police say happened as the father was fleeing an area department store with stolen goods.
It happened early Tuesday afternoon in Bucks County, a Philadelphia suburb.
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Police say a man driving a truck with his 2-year-old child in the back seat stole speakers for a television set from a Walmart store then drove off.
Authorities say he ran a red light, and a person who had a green light t-boned the truck, causing it to collide with another vehicle.
The 2-year-old child in the truck was thrown from the vehicle during the collision.
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The child was taken to an area hospital but did not survive.
Police say the child's father ran from the scene of the crash, but he was captured by police a short distance away.
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