Salisbury, N.C : Pregnant woman, child freed in serious Rowan County crash on Thursday morning, April 6, 2017
Salisbury, North Carolina
A pregnant woman and child were freed from a serious crash in Rowan County Thursday morning.
Just from the sound of it, Inez Oddie knew this was a horrible crash.
“I was sitting in the living room watching TV and heard a big boom and came running out the door and saw the car in my tree," Oddie said.
24-year-old Felisha Blackwelder was driving a P.T. Cruiser on Barger Road in eastern Rowan County when troopers say it appears she ran off the road, hit a mailbox, then pulled the car back on the road.
“It struck a culvert on the shoulder and begin to overturn and overturned and collided with a tree at a very extreme impact," said Sgt. Daniel Hill of the NC State Highway Patrol.
The car slammed into the tree and stopped. Inez Oddie called 911 and ran to see if the driver was okay.
“She wanted us to get her out and get hear baby out," Oddie said. "The little girl, she was moving, but she’s hurt.”
Rescue workers managed to free Blackwelder and her daughter, who was in a car seat. They wanted to call for a medical helicopter but high winds kept them grounded, so mother and daughter were driven to Winston-Salem to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
“The child is in critical condition and so is the mother," Sgt. Hall added.
Inez Oddie says right now her prayers and thoughts are with the young woman, her daughter, and her unborn child.
“All I’m concerned with is that the lady, she’s eight months pregnant, and her little girl, that they’ll be alright," Oddie said.
According to the Highway Patrol, Blackwelder and her daughter are in critical condition. The unborn child, already named Kamden Ray Blackwelder, has a due date of June 3.
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Pregnant woman, child freed in serious Rowan County crash