8 Year Old Died In A Car Crash After Her Grandfather Let Her Take Over The Wheel

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WATCH: (Scroll Down For Video) An eight-year-old Kansas girl has died in the car she was driving in with her grandfather after he let her take over the wheel, police have reported.

The Kansas Highway Patrol announced that 8-year-old Cadence Orcutt of Troy died in the accident on Sunday after losing control of the 2007 Chevy Cobalt she was driving. She was not wearing a seatbelt.

The patrol says Dennis Eugene Meers, 56, was riding with his granddaughter in the car and was possibly injured in the crash after the car went down an embankment and overturned.

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Kansas Highway Patrol Master Trooper Adam Simon told The St. Joseph News Press that troopers and Doniphan County Sheriff’s deputies investigated the accident.He says the adult in the car had given the child permission to drive and that the accident is under investigation, reports CJonline.

Cadence’s mother Brittany Nicole Orcutt took to Facebook after the crash to remember her daughter and to lash out at critics who criticized her parenting skills. She said that if she were in the car she never would have let her daughter drive.

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‘For all the judgemental people saying bad things about me and my parenting skills, there’s one thing you all should know — I am so over protective of my children,’ the post read.

‘I would have absolutely never let my daughter drive on one gravel road,’ the heartbroken mother added.

‘I wasn’t with her and if I had been, this wouldn’t have happened. I don’t need anyone’s judgement. I’m blaming myself enough as it is. My heart is dying. There are no words. There’s nothing. She will never come home again, she lamented.

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