By Sharon Noguchi
San Jose Mercury News
LOS GATOS, Calif. — A 6-year-old girl riding in her parents’ car had her hand severed while playing with a jump rope that got caught under the car’s wheel, Los Gatos police reported.
The girl had a jump rope in a slipknot around her left wrist, while the other end was fluttering out the car window, Sgt. Randy Rimple said. She was strapped into a child seat while riding home from a soccer game. About 5:20 p.m. on Sept. 9, the car was on Daves Avenue near Via Vaquero when the rope apparently caught under the car’s rear wheel and severed the child’s hand, he said.
The car stopped, and a passing motorist also stopped to help. Paramedics arrived and the child, a Los Gatos resident who was not identified, was taken to Stanford Hospital by ambulance. Doctors performed surgery to try to reattach the hand. The results of the surgery were not immediately available.