A four-year-old and one-year-old were saved from a Texas highway after they were ejected from a Jeep during a crash. The children were not in car seats, according to state police. Their father, who was driving the car, could potentially face criminal charges.
The father of two toddlers thrown from a Jeep in a highway crash is likely to face criminal charges, officials said Wednesday. The accident occurred on Sunday on the I-10 East Freeway, on the outskirts of Houston, Texas. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez described the incident on X as “a two-car crash where one of the cars flipped over several times causing ejection.” Among those ejected from the overturned vehicle were a four-year-old and a one-year-old, the sheriff's office said.
'They were just sitting in the back of the vehicle, not strapped to anything,' said Deputy Thomas Gilliland of the Harris County Sheriff's Office. Both children are being treated at the hospital and remain in “serious but stable condition,” said the sheriff’s office. Their father, the driver, was treated for minor injuries and released. Texas state law requires that children under the age of 8 be secured in a child safety seat.
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