Driver Crashes Into Apartment, Narrowly Misses Infant
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A driver crashes into an apartment building and narrowly misses striking an infant and mother Wednesday morning.
COLUMBUS, Ohio—A driver crashed into an apartment building and narrowly missed striking an infant and mother Wednesday morning.
NBC 4 reported with the FAST FACTS.
Authorities were called to 156 Grants Lane West in Prairie Township before 8 a.m. on reports of a vehicle into a structure.
A woman crashed her vehicle into an eight-unit apartment building in Lincoln Village.
Authorities evacuated two of the eight units, had the utilities shut off and called in investigators to check the building for possible structural damage.
The vehicle narrowly missed hitting a 7-week-old infant and his mother.
The infant’s mother just had picked him or her up from the bassinet.
“I was just about to sit him down, and that’s when I heard this big bang. And I grabbed him up,” Amber McKenzie said.
The mother, her husband and her three step-sisters were in the apartment at the time of the crash.
All of the apartment occupants were uninjured.
The driver, who is in her 50s, was transported to Doctor’s Hospital West in stable condition.
No word on whether charges would be filed.
No more immediate information was available.
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ppl are still going to use the earpieces and communicate. My car has a bluetooth so I can communicate at any time and no one can tell the difference. It is like talking to my child who is in the backseat.
Texting is for idiots that don’t realize that they are holding a telephone in their hands,hey all you need to do is talk.As far as getting the law changed to include cell phone use, don’t tell me New York,New Jersey and California are smarter than Ohio. They have already passed the law and accidents have dropped.I say stop cell phone use while driving !Me and my family will be safer.I bet the Insurance Companies can get it done.
That law isn’t going to do anything but make it possible to throw someone in jail if detectives can “prove” that an individual was texting while driving. Unless you have voice texting equiped on your phone, you have no business texting. You may as well read a magazine while driving. As for no cell phone use, good luck with that one. Distraction?? Kids in the car is a distraction, so we may as well make it illegal to drive with them in the vehicle as well.
Well congradulation Ohio. You are now apptempting to stop texting while driving. Are you aware that using the cell phone while driving is just as dangerous ! I’m on the road alot and watch these people switch lanes,slow down,speed up and in general NOT paying attention where they are going or what they are doing. How and when are we going to STOP cell phone use totally while driving ? Who do we contact ? and how do we change the law ?
is it against the law to talk on your phone while driving?
If so, I am amazed at the number of individuals driving downtown talking on cells and making illegal turns (with all the pedestrian traffic) while CPO’s stand at the corner talking to lady friends.
If that is the case, they need to enforce it.
The lady was on the phone. When this happened.
It just happend today. What if she was having a stroke or something similar, are they going to give her a ticket for having a medical condition?
Do you think she intentionally ran her car into the apartment?
Instead of wanting to ruin the lady, maybe you should be thanking the Lord for protecting your family.
I am the grandmother of the infant. I cant see how someones whole car was in a home and they not get charged. It was not just a bit in the whole car. it had went up a hill and to top it off the lady never said ( I am sorry.) It didnt just nick the building it went in as it was a garage.
We might as well eliminate accident from the english language, since no one wants to understand its true meaning.
I am curious about the title of this article. How does the car narrowly miss the infant if the mother picked it up after hearing a crash?
Wow, last year it was wrong-way drivers on the freeway. This year, running your car into a building seems to be the thing to do.
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