By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
A 3-week-old child died Thursday after being ejected from her grandmother’s van in a crash on Ga. 247 and Ignico Drive.
The child, Lilly Rose Logue, was laid in a car seat, but not strapped in and the seat, which was not buckled to the vehicle, said Cpl. Sean Alexander of the Houston County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Division. “Had the child been in the seat properly,” Alexander said, “we would have been in a better situation than we are today.”
The child and the grandmother, Denise Logue, 53, of 200 Second St., Bonaire, were both ejected from the vehicle.
“Nobody in the vehicle was using the seatbelts,” Alexander said. The teenage mother, Erina Logue, 16, and the car seat remained in the vehicle.
Alexander said the driver was on her cell phone at the time of the crash. She reportedly failed to yield the right of way, pulled out in front of a southbound 2001 Chrysler Concorde, which tried to avoid the van but hit the left front wheel of the van and then struck a 1991 Nissan 240SX stopped in the northbound left turn lane, pushing it backwards.
The infant and grandmother were ejected as the van started to roll on the driver’s side. The van slid across the roadway, the tire dug in and the van became upright again Alexander said.
Denise and Erina Logue as well the two occupants of the Nissan were taken to Houston Medical Center, where the Logues remain in stable condition, Alexander said. The driver of the Chrysler was not injured.
The Sheriff’s Office received the call on the accident at 11:47 a.m., Alexander said.
Alexander said charges are pending against Denise Logue once the results of blood alcohol tests come in. She will be charged “at least with vehicular homicide and the traffic charges,” he said.
