Hit by a concrete mixer, child loses her life

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Hit by a concrete mixer in Başiskele district in Kocaeli, a four-year-old child has lost her life during her treatment at hospital.

As reported by the state-run Anadolu Agency (AA), Zeynep Meryem Özlek (4), on her way to a market with her mother and two siblings before the COVID-19 curfew, wanted to cross the street in Vezirçiftliği Neighborhood. She was hit by the concrete mixer driven by C.Ç.

While Özlek was taken to the Kocaeli University Hospital in an ambulance, she could not be saved despite all efforts.

'Open maintenance hole covers, constructions...'

Speaking to bianet, urban planner Gizem Kıygı previously underlined that "cities were designed from a perspective reducing them to the body of a middle-aged and healthy man," adding that "cities were designed by ignoring the people with disabilities, animals, women and children."

Elaborating further on what is meant by child-friendly cities, urban planner Kıygı noted that what they were talking about was not segmental projects designed for certain activities of children:

"Cities must be offering an environment where children can take an active part in both life and spatial activities, all infrastructural and superstructural problems such as broken walls, electric wires, open maintenance hole covers etc. are solved, construction works are inspected and children are not discriminated against in any way at all." (AÖ/SD)