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HUTTO, Texas (AP) - A seventh-grade cheerleader died when she fell from a float and was run over during the Old Tyme Days festival parade on Saturday, authorities said.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said Melissa Swain, 12, stood up and fell forward off the flatbed trailer that served as the float. The trailer, which was being pulled by a pickup truck, ran over her.
"It was an +accident+, and we don't feel that anyone was to blame for it," Carla Swain, Melissa's mother, said Saturday night.
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