A five-year-old Illinois girl has died after she was struck by a car-mounted starting gate during a county fair harness racing event.
Harper Layne Finn, from Altamont, was sitting in a grandstand at the Effingham County Fair last Sunday 30 July when she was hit by the folding arm of a pace car gate that failed to close due to a malfunction and extended into the grandstand, the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office said.
