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A Prince George’s County mother says she’s grateful to be alive, after she and her 4-year-old were struck by another driver while driving along Silver Hill Road.
DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. — A Prince George’s County mother says she is beyond grateful to be alive after a terrifying crash along Silver Hill Road. Both she and her 4-year-old daughter were hurt.
“We’re sore. We’re in pain. It’s a lot of agony,” India Deahl told WUSA9 Monday night.
She said her daughter, Blaire, who is only 4 years old, suffered visible injuries. “she has her black eye. and this big cut and bruise on the side of her face,” Deahl said, pointing to her daughter’s injuries.
Deahl said the crash happened Saturday as she was driving along Pennsylvania Avenue with her daughter buckled into a booster seat in the back. As she approached Silver Hill Road, she said she had the right of way.
“It was a green light so we were just crossing and all of a sudden a white Infinity truck started darting towards us and I skirted the vehicle to the right, but it was too late, the impact happened,” Deahl said.
She said the vehicle flipped multiple times before coming to a stop upside down.
“Myself and my daughter, we were in our seatbelts, we were suspended from the air, and I heard my baby girl screaming,” she explained. “To hear that is…It’s a mother, it’s a cry that I don’t want any wish any mother to go through. Cause at the same time I didn’t know what she looked like back there,” she said.
Deahl said she unbuckled herself and climbed into the back seat to reach her daughter.
“I got her from her booster seat because she was suspending the air and I just kept holding her. We were bleeding, we were crying, we were screaming,” she said.
Amid the chaos, Deahl said strangers rushed in to help, including a man she identified as Stefan.
“A gentleman named Stefan, he’s one of the ones who witnessed it from beginning to end. He opened up our car door and got us out I passed him my baby and we got out and we were taken to the hospital,” she said.
She says her light was green. “It’s been a solid green,” she said, adding that based on the signal she had and what witnesses told her she believes the other driver, who was in a white SUV, ran a red light.
As she seeks justice, Deahl said she hopes images of the crash serve as a warning to other drivers.
“it’s not worth it. Wherever you’re going, it’s not worth it. A traffic light. It will turn the next light, just give it two or three minutes,” she said.
She also said she is counting her blessings after surviving the crash with her daughter.
“God forbid, like my baby, that’s my only baby in the world, she’s 4 years old, so much life to live and I thank God, I thank for giving us a second chance to even tell the story,” Deahl said.
WUSA9 reached out to Prince George’s County Police for more information on the crash and the status of the other driver, but had not heard back yet as of Monday night.
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