Highway crash causes law enforcement to reinforce seat belt safety - ABC17News.com

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A car wreck on Highway 40 at Rollingwood Blvd left four people injured just before 11:30 a.m on Wednesday.

Sonnikqua McKamey, 29, and Brandon Lewis, 37, were with a one-year-old child in a 2009 Buick Lucerne when troopers say McKamey didn't stop at the intersection causing Lonnie Duncan, 56, in a 2013 Ford F150 to t-bone the Lucerne.

According to the crash report, Duncan was wearing a seat belt and the other three weren't. Missouri Highway Patrol said the child was ejected from the passenger car possibly out the back window because the child was not restrained.

The child was airlifted to St.Louis Children's hospital, McKamey and Lewis are at University Hospital in fair condition and Duncan was treated and released from University Hospital Wednesday night according to Eric Maze, spokesman with University Hospital.

Sgt. Shawn Brazas with the Missouri Highway Patrol says if the child had been restrained, the injuries would have been less severe. According to the Insurance Information Institute, among passenger vehicle occupants age five and older, seatbelts saved an estimated 14,955 lives in 2017.

NHTSA said that in 2017 the lives of an estimated 325 children under the age of five were saved by restraints.

source: https://abc17news.com/news/2021/10/28/highway-crash-causes-law-enforcement-to-reinforce-seat-belt-safety/

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