Our Montgomery County fatal accident lawyers sadly learned of a fatal single vehicle accidentthat claimed the life of an 8-month-old baby girl and severely injured her mother around 6 p.m. on Monday. The accident occurred on FM 1484 near Cut and Shoot.
Witnesses say that the mother’s Chevy SUV was traveling southbound at least 70 mph on weather-sodden roadways when the vehicle failed to successfully negotiate a curve. The SUV became airborne and struck a tree before wrapping around the tree in a mangled mess of metal. Witnesses and DPS troopers mention there’s no evidence that the mother tried to slow down before crashing. The Chevy SUV also struck an aboveground gas meter, sending gas spewing into the air. Our Montgomery County fatal accident lawyers note that ehe danger of a gas explosion hampered the rescue response.
The baby girl was found dead at the scene of the crash, properly restrained in a child safety seat. News reports say that the cause of the infant’s death is as yet unknown. Authorities are trying to determine whether the mother was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the accident, since she was found partially ejected through the SUV window.
A bus driver that witnesses the crash said she’s never seen a crash so horrible. She regularly travels the roadway where the crash occurred and theorized that the mother might not have noticed the speed limit change from 55 mph to 45 mph in the vicinity of the curve, nor the curve in the roadway. The bus driver believes that drivers tend to drive too fast through that stretch of roadway and mentioned that there’s a wreck there every 2 or 3 months.
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