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Baby Seriously Injured By Wrong Car Seat
Posted on Oct 28, 2009
A Cookeville woman and her two year old child were seriously injured in a car accident on highway 136 in Putnam County, TN. The child's booster car safety seat was not was not appropriate for his age which caused him to be ejected through one of the car windows during the crash. A second child was in the vehicle in an appropriate car seat and was not seriously injured according to a spokesman for the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
The automobile accident occurred on October 26th, 2009 just north of Village Road on highway 136 outside of Cookeville. Kimberly Lynn Johnson of Spruce Avenue, Cookeville, was driving a 1994 Toyota Corolla and her sister, Ashley Nicole Garcia was riding in the front passenger seat. Garcia's two children, Monica Nicole Garcia, 17 months, and Alex Alonzo Garcia, 2, were in the back seat.
The driver lost control of the car causing it to run off the right side of the road where it then began flipping as many as three times. The two year old child that was ejected landed in the northbound lane of the highway.
A life flight medical emergency helicopter flew the child to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga.
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