An 8-year-old girl died after she was struck by a Florida fire apparatus over the weekend.

The accident happened Saturday in Jacksonville Heights' Oak Hill Park area in Jacksonville, WJXT-TV reports. A Jacksonville Fire apparatus was pulling out of Station 31 at the time of the incident.

Witnesses told WJXT that the girl was spooked by a neighborhood dog that was unleashed, leading her to run into the path of the apparatus. She was taken to the hospital, where she later died from her injuries.

“I guess he was coming up and neither one of them seen each other …," a witness told the news outlet.

Although the apparatus had its lights flashing, the vehicle's sirens were not running, witnesses told WJAX-TV. The firefighter driving the apparatus also was visibly upset following the accident, according to witnesses.

A Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department spokesman told WJXT that he could not comment on the accident. Investigators from the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office are looking into the incident.