Infant Avoids Injury After Child Safety Seat Slips Onto Maryland Roadway: Report

Disaster was averted in Southern Maryland after a 5-month-old girl was left on the trunk of a vehicle that took off, causing the baby to hit the roadway while her unoccupied child safety seat was struck by a tractor-trailer, the Cecil Whig is reporting.

Police in Maryland were called to investigate after an infant fell off a vehicle.
Photo Credit: *Baltimore County Police*

Zak Failla

11/02/2022 4:40 p.m.

The infant's parents were returning to the 300 block of Chrome Road in Calvert on Tuesday, Nov. 1 after realizing the child was not in their car, but not before passersby alerted officials, according to the outlet.

Roger Edsel Gomez Sexton, 28, has reportedly been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol by police investigators, while the child was transported to an area hospital for evaluation.

The incident remains under investigation.

The complete story from the Cecil Whig can be found here.

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