A 6-year-old Toledo girl is on a ventilator with two broken legs and bruised lungs after a hit-and-run crash that pinned her under an ATV, her mother told 13abc (WTVG) in a report published today, November 3. The girl, My’Kayla Arrington, was struck on Wednesday, October 28, and doctors are concerned about her brain function, her mother, Crystal Carter, told 13abc.
Carter has described the crash in a fundraiser she organized for her daughter’s recovery. In that account, Carter wrote that My’Kayla was struck by an ATV while walking across a crosswalk on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, and was left unconscious, with two broken legs and severely bruised lungs.
The injuries have already required repeated operations. Carter wrote in the fundraiser that My’Kayla has gone through three surgeries since the crash and is expected to need two more, and that she has not been able to return to work since the incident because she is staying with her daughter.
The timeline of the past week shows how quickly a family’s life narrowed to a hospital room. The crash happened on Wednesday, October 28. In the days since, according to Carter’s fundraiser, My’Kayla has been through three surgeries, remains on a ventilator, and faces at least two more operations — while her mother says she has stepped away from work entirely to stay with her, and does not expect to return until her daughter heals.
The fundraiser says donations will help with My’Kayla’s ongoing medical needs as well as living expenses, transportation, food, personal care and legal costs while Carter remains at her side. It is the family’s own account of its circumstances, published in Carter’s name on GoFundMe.
What we know — and what we’re still waiting on
What is confirmed comes from the family, through two channels that agree with each other: Carter’s account to 13abc (WTVG) and her own fundraiser both describe an October 28 crash involving an ATV, a child left with two broken legs and bruised lungs, three surgeries so far and more expected. 13abc described the crash as a hit-and-run that pinned the girl under the ATV.
What is not yet public is the official record of the crash itself. Toledo police have not, in the reporting available this morning, released a public account identifying a driver or a vehicle description, or announced an arrest. A separate dispatch-based account of an October 28 crash on Upton Avenue in west Toledo, published by The Fostoria Free Press’s CrimeRadar, described a child hurt when a car hit a motorcycle and a mail truck — a sequence that does not clearly match the family’s account — so NewsForce247 is not treating that dispatch summary as the official version of My’Kayla’s crash.
The distinction matters for readers following the case. The family’s need is documented and immediate; the investigation’s facts — where exactly the crash happened, what vehicle was involved and whether a driver has been identified — still have to come from Toledo police, and this story will be updated when the department releases them.
Crosswalk crashes involving children draw a particular kind of community response in Toledo, and this one comes with an added frustration for the family: a hit-and-run means the person responsible has not, in any public account so far, been identified. That is why the official record matters — a police report would establish the location, the vehicle involved and the direction the investigation is taking, and would give residents a concrete description to watch for.
Toledo has been working through a complicated year on its streets. The city reported this week that homicides are down nearly 27 percent under its new police chief — context we covered in our report on Toledo’s latest crime statistics — while serious crashes involving children remain the kind of call that cuts through any statistical improvement.
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What happens next runs on two tracks. Medically, Carter expects two more surgeries for her daughter, whose doctors continue to monitor her brain function, according to her account to 13abc. On the investigation, the next concrete step is a public statement from Toledo police on the October 28 crash; anyone with information about a hit-and-run involving an ATV that day is the audience investigators will be asking for.