Baby thrown from car wreck survives with minor injuries
This baby is lucky. She wasn’t even strapped to her car seat properly, but the mere fact that she was laying in a car seat and had thick clothing on, came together as a very happy coincidence.
By the way, what the heck is a “pumpkin seat”?
A 6-month-old baby boy thrown from an SUV that crashed on Interstate 44 this morning suffered only minor injuries, officials say.
St. Louis Fire Capt. Bob Keuss said the baby, inside her pumpkin seat, was thrown out a rear window when the SUV turned on its side about 8 a.m. on eastbound I-44 near Southwest Avenue.
The baby, wearing winter clothes and in her pumpkin seat, had not been properly strapped into the car, police said.
Emergency workers found the baby trapped in the seat, police said.
Keuss theorizes that the padding from the clothing and the pumpkin seat helped cushion the fall.
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