ice cream truck safety

More than a year after their son was hit and killed by a car passing an ice cream truck, two Wallingford parents are pushing for a Connecticut law to implement safety measures surrounding ice cream trucks to the federal level.

A Wallingford family and lawmakers are trying to make a summer tradition safer for everyone.   “We were there. We were watching. It just happened too fast,” Tyler Barhorst said.  There was nothing Barhorst or the other parents could have done as they watched 10-year-old Tristan get struck and killed by a car after buying ice cream from an ice...

More than a year after their son was hit and killed by a car passing an ice cream truck, two Wallingford parents are pushing for a Connecticut law to implement safety measures surrounding ice cream trucks to the federal level.