From Press staff reportsDEERFIELD TOWNSHIP – A 3-month-old boy was thrown from his mother’s car and killed Friday afternoon, State Police said – despite being secured in a child seat on the rear driver’s side.
Brenda Pancoast, 19, of Bridgeton, was heading east on Vineland Avenue shortly before 5 p.m. when her Honda Accord crossed the center line into the westbound lane, according to State Police Sgt. Julian Castellanos.
The car struck a tree and flipped over onto its roof near the Nixon Avenue intersection, Castellanos said.
Pancoast’s son, Briant Ewing, born Feb. 22, was thrown 10 feet from the car despite being in a child seat, police said. The infant was pronounced dead at the scene a half-hour after the accident, police said.
Pancoast was sent to Cooper University Hospital in Camden with moderate injuries, police said.The investigation into the crash is continuing, police said.
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