Toddler killed after walking onto dark, busy highway

RIVERDALE - A two-year-old wandered onto a busy highway south of Atlanta shortly before dawn Wednesday and was struck and killed by rush-hour traffic. <br> <br> Clayton County police Lieutenant Jeff Turner said Keylon Dillard was wearing only a diaper. <br> <br> Turner said, ``It looks like he had only just woke up and wandered out of the house.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> He said the body appeared to have been hit by multiple vehicles. <br> <br> Turner said it possible that in the dark, motorists don&#39;t know what they hit and kept on going. <br> <br> A female motorist called police shortly after 7 a.m. reporting an object in the roadway. <br> <br> Police said Keylon&#39;s mother, Erica Lee, works in downtown Atlanta and was not home at the time. It was not clear who was home with the child. <br> <br> In a different case, a three-year-old boy remained hospitalized after wandering out of the family home in Powder Springs and being struck by a sport utility vehicle Tuesday.

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