A two-year-old girl has been deemed brain dead and is now sur­viv­ing on­ly on ma­chines, af­ter be­ing hit by a pick-up truck in Ari­ma.

The child is now in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion with a col­lapsed lung at the Mt Hope hos­pi­tal.

The ac­ci­dent oc­curred along La Re­treat Road, Ari­ma.

Re­ports in­di­cate that a 29-year-old man was dri­ving his Nis­san Fron­tier when he ob­served some pedes­tri­ans stand­ing on the pave­ment.

He told po­lice that the child sud­den­ly stepped in­to the road­way and he was un­able to avoid hit­ting her.

The child was treat­ed for haem­or­rhag­ing to the brain, a bro­ken col­lar bone, two frac­tures of the ver­te­bral col­umn, two lac­er­a­tions to the liv­er and mul­ti­ple abra­sions about her body.

This is the fifth trag­ic in­ci­dent in­volv­ing a child in the last week.

A ten-month-old ba­by boy is in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter he fell from the 2nd-floor bal­cony of his Princes Town home this morn­ing.

Three-year-old Isa­iah Hazel was found dead in a school bus on Thurs­day.

He re­port­ed­ly fell asleep on his way to school and re­mained un­no­ticed by the dri­ver who re­turned home un­til it was time to re­turn for the chil­dren some six hours lat­er.

On Wednes­day, two-year-old Ter­raci­na Ariel Meena Mooni­lal was crushed to death by a truck out­side her home in Waller­field.

An au­top­sy re­vealed she died from mul­ti­ple blunt force trau­ma.

Lit­tle Ter­raci­na man­aged to re­move a wood­en bar­ri­er and fol­low her 12-year-old cousin out­side.

Her cousin was speak­ing to the dri­ver of the truck who had stopped to ask for di­rec­tions.

Last Mon­day, a four-year-old res­i­dent of the Bridge of Hope Chil­dren’s Home, was found un­re­spon­sive at the fa­cil­i­ty in San­gre Grande.

In a state­ment on Wednes­day, the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty said an in­ves­ti­ga­tion has been launched in­to the in­ci­dent.