A South Carolina teen mom died in a automobile crash after a fowl flew out of the woods, and into the car’s windshield, in accordance with officers.
The Anderson County Coroner stated that they acquired a name on Tuesday, Sept. 24, round 11 a.m. native time a couple of crash on Clamp Drive at Ernest Lane in Belton, S.C., involving two youngsters, in accordance with a press launch obtained by PEOPLE.
After arriving on the scene, they pronounced one of many youngsters, recognized as 17-year-old Abbigail Callaham, the mother of a 4-month-old daughter, lifeless.
Anderson County Coroner Greg Shore informed native Fox affiliate WHNS that the kids left Belton-Honea Path Excessive Faculty after early dismissal. In keeping with a witness, the crash happened after “a fowl flew out of a tree” and “hit the automobile on the windshield.”
Within the press launch, the coroner’s workplace described the creature as a “massive fowl, presumably a turkey” and famous that after it hit the windshield, the driving force “misplaced management of the car, ran off the suitable facet of the roadway the place he overcorrected, crossed the heart line and hit a tree on the left facet of the roadway.”
The coroner’s workplace stated Callaham, who died of a number of traumatic accidents, was not carrying a seatbelt on the time of the crash. In the meantime, the coroner’s workplace says the driving force was taken to the hospital, the place he “continues to get well.”
Her method of demise has been dominated as unintentional.
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When reached for extra remark by PEOPLE, a public info officer for the coroner’s workplace informed PEOPLE that in accordance with the sufferer’s father, the pair have been headed to a daycare to select up their little one on the time of the crash.
Anderson Faculty District Two, which Belton-Honea Path Excessive Faculty is part of, recognized highschool senior Thomas Kennedy as the driving force within the incident, in accordance with a Facebook post. The district additionally famous that Callum, who glided by the title Grace, was a junior at the highschool.
“We can have further counselors at BHP to offer grief help to college students and workers. Please preserve Grace’s household in your ideas and prayers as they navigate by this tough time,” the district wrote, occurring to share that they can even host an occasion to “carry up prayers for each of those college students and their households.”