A Clinton County toddler is dead after the child ran in front of a vehicle on Memorial Day.

Two-year-old Reed Rogers was killed after he walked into the path of a 2005 Dodge truck just before noon on Monday, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.

43-year-old John Rogers was pulling the truck forwards in the driveway south of Lathrop when the boy ran in front of the truck.  The accident happened two miles southwest of Lathrop on 240th street in Rural Clinton County.