Jul 22 2009
Car Seats
Dixon Truman Fisher and Clifford promote the use of approved safety devices for children. Always securely place children in proper child restraint seats.
This story in the St. George Spectrum reemphasizes the importance of that.
CEDAR CITY – A fatal crash involving three vehicles on I-15 at mile post 42 led to two deaths and six people injured early Sunday morning.
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Driver Juan Garcia, 29, of Hesperia, Calif., was traveling southbound on I-15 at 4:05 a.m. with Chantel Manuel, 22, Olegario Angulo, 31, Zapatista Angulo, 3, and Assata Angulo, 5 months, all of Los Angeles, when Garcia swerved to the left to avoid a deer, according to a Utah Highway Patrol report.
Garcia’s 1993 Range Rover rolled several times and both children, not restrained in their car seats, were ejected from the vehicle, according to the report.
Olegario Angulo was seatbelted but sustained fatal head wounds from the roof and door of the vehicle, according to the report. Assata Angulo also died after suffering head injuries.
Manuel suffered injuries to the lower torso and Garcia to the head and arms, both later taken to Valley View Medical Center.
Mario Mendez, 67, of Vista, Caif., was driving a 2006 Toyota 4-Runner southbound when he saw the debris in the road but not the Range Rover, which did not have lights on, and hit it on the front right while swerving into the emergency lane, according to the report.
Mendez told UHP he got out and tried to warn oncoming traffic of the crash, but a third vehicle, driven by Jennifer A. Jordan, 47, of Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., did not see the Rover and hit its side.
Jordan’s 2003 Toyota Tacoma spun around into the emergency lane and came to rest facing east next to Garcia’s vehicle, according to the report.
Jordan suffered a broken ankle and was LifeFighted to Intermountain Medical Center. Her son, Jeremy, 20, who suffered bruises and abrasions, was taken to VVMC and later IMC to be with his mother.
