A 3-year-old girl died in a car crash in Utah after being ejected from her mother’s car while still in her car seat.
Norma Jones, 35, and her young daughter, Rosie Jones, of Duchesne, were on their way to pick up food when they were thrown from the front seats of their Volkswagen Passat in a head-on collision that ended their lives. Tuesday, ksl reported.
Their other two sons, Anthony, 6, and Freddie, 11, were also in the car but miraculously survived the accident.
Initially, the Utah Highway Patrol reported that no one in the car was wearing a seat belt, but the department believes Freddie may have been wearing one.
Now the family is promoting the importance of wearing a seat belt.
Norma Jones, 35, and her young daughter, Rosie Jones, 3, died in a car crash in Utah on Tuesday after being ejected from the front seats of the car without wearing seat belts.
Jones and three of her children were on their way to pick up food from the Herber Food Bank Tuesday afternoon on US-40 in Wasatch County when their car crossed the line into oncoming traffic and collided head-on with a Dodge Ram truck.
“Seeing Freddie here with us today really opened my eyes to why you should wear a seat belt,” Fred Jones, Norma’s surviving husband, told KSL.
“It’s a miracle that two of my four are with us today.”
The family was headed to pick up food from the Herber Food Bank Tuesday afternoon on US-40 in Wasatch County when their car crossed the line into oncoming traffic, colliding head-on with a Dodge Ram pickup truck. fox 13 reported.
Jones and her daughter were in the front of the car without seat belts.
The 3-year-old was completely ejected from the car and Jones was partially ejected, killing them both on impact.
The 3-year-old girl was completely ejected from the car while still in her seat and Jones was partially ejected, killing both on impact.
The two surviving children were in the back seat at the time of the crash and were airlifted to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Six-year-old Anthony was released from Salt Lake City Primary Children’s Hospital on Thursday after suffering a broken back, ribs and a dislocated hip, KSL added.
He is said to be recovering after back surgery.
Eleven-year-old Freddie was scraped but suffered minimal injuries.
The two men in the van were taken by ambulance to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Fortunately, they were wearing seat belts.
Their other two sons, Anthony, 6, and Freddie, 11, were also in the car but miraculously survived the accident.
The two men in the truck were taken by ambulance to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and fortunately they were wearing seat belts.
Jones was described as a devoted figure to both her children and her husband.
Fred Jones took to Facebook Wednesday to mourn his wife and share an album of family photos.
“Today my family suffered a loss, I will miss you both, I love you Norma Jones, Rose Jones, RIP,” the caption read. “We will always be Joneses.”
Norma García, Norma’s mother, told KSL: ‘The best mother in the world. I was looking out for you kids.
Highway 40 was closed for several hours while crews cleared debris from the crash, Fox 13 added.
Drivers were told to avoid the area until later that night due to the nearly five-mile-long traffic jam.
“What I can tell anyone who drives a vehicle or has a family and loved ones like me… I would put my seat belt on,” Fred told KSL.
Wearing a seat belt is the most effective way to save lives in the event of an accident. They reduce accident-related injuries by about half, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
Fred Jones, Norma’s husband, stressed the importance of wearing a seat belt after losing his daughter and his wife in the accident
Fred believes it is a miracle that two of his four loved ones were able to survive the accident and became emotional during an interview in which he hugged one of his surviving children.
Jones was described as a devoted figure to both her children and her husband and was also described as “the best mother.”
However, millions of people still forget to buckle up while traveling.
Car accidents are a leading cause of death among people between the ages of one and 54 in the United States.
In 2021, 26,000 people died in a car accident. More than half of those killed (between 51 and 61 percent) were not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident.
In 2017 alone, seat belt use saved nearly 15,000 lives.
A friend of the Jones family has created a GoFundMe for support that has already raised $12,343.
Fred is now left as the sole caregiver for his five remaining children.