WATERFORD — Police are still investigating how a van driven by a 62-year-old grandmother with her four young grandchildren on board went off the road, seriously injuring one.
Emily Turner, 4, who police said they believe lives in the Waterford area, was injured while traveling with her grandmother, Christine Kimball, 62, of Waterford, and Kimball’s three other grandchildren, when Kimball’s car went off the road, striking a tree.
“Alcohol and speed are not seen as factors,” said State Police Lt. Walter F. Grzyb of the accident that occurred on Ben Hale Road Thursday afternoon. Kimball and her grandchildren were less than a mile from her home when the accident happened.
“We don’t know if there was some sort of distraction or what,” said Grzyb, who said the speed limit was no more than 45 mph on the narrow paved road that is near Bear Pond and about a mile from the intersection of routes 35 and 37.
No new information is available on the 4-year-old’s condition Friday, but Grzyb said the wound Emily received when her head hit the head rest in front of her was not believed to be life threatening. She was taken by LifeFlight to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.
Emily was in a booster seat. All the children and the driver wore seat belts, he said. No one else was injured.
In addition to Emily, the three other children in the car were were Skyler Turner, 13, Walter Kimball, 7, and Noah Turner, 6. Police said they believe they all live in the Waterford area.
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