Child thrown from car in crash; 4 injured
Failure to yield and failure to use headlights after dark caused a two-car crash on U.S. 460 in Thomas Terrace on Sunday that sent three adults and a child to the hospital, police said.
The crash occurred at about 5:30 p.m. when a Toyota Camry traveling eastbound on U.S. 460 struck a Honda Accord that was turning left onto Kiowah Road, near the Spring House restaurant, said Trooper J. L. Doss with the Virginia State Police.
The driver of the Honda, Patricia Leeming, of Forest, was taken to Lynchburg General Hospital with broken bones and other injuries, Doss said. She was charged with failure to yield.
The child, Leeming’s granddaughter, was ejected from the car during the crash. “It appeared that the child may not have been properly restrained,” Doss said. She was flown to the University of Virginia Medical Center and her condition is unknown.
Two people in the Toyota, which was driven by Walter Arrington of Charlotte Court House, were taken to Lynchburg General Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Doss said. “Airbags and seat belts, I think, prevented that.”
Arrington was charged with failure to use headlights after sunset.
Both drivers were charged because they each contributed to the crash, Doss said.
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Re: Amy
From what we (the family) know Brook was wearing her seatbelt but moved the shoulder strap under her arm. Please consider how inconsiderate your comments can be when you don’t know the full story. Her grandmother (driver) is anything but negligent, Brook was sitting behind her so she wouldn’t have been able to see if she and moved her belt.
There always has to be the finger pointer & the person that blames another, when you don’t personally know the whole story.
I do agree mrlegoman.. I do not understand how she was charged with failure to yield, it seems as if she did yield and when she could not SEE there was a vehicle coming for his failure to use HEADLIGHTS, she took the chance to cross 460. Just crazy if you ask me!
I’m praying for the family of little 10 year-old miss brooke ♥
Amy, don’t blame the parents. It was a grandparent who apparently didn’t retrain the child correctly. Probably a grandparent who didn’t have to use car seats back in the day.
Why was Patricia Leeming charged with failure to yield to a car that was driving without headlights?
So if I’m driving around and one of the idiots I see every evening driving around town without their headlights hits me, I’m going to be charged too? That doesn’t make sense to me.
Another child injured bec of negligent parents. A car seat is not a hard concept to understand.
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