A 25-year-old Virginia woman died and her three passengers were injured when she crashed a car on I-88 in the Delaware County town of Sidney on Wednesday, May 20, police say.
Ericka Sa-Keema, of Lorton, Virginia, was driving a 2002 Ford east on the highway at 6:27 a.m. when the crash occurred, according to a press release from the New York State Police:
[S]he drove off the north side of the roadway on to the shoulder. When she tried to correct this she lost control of her vehicle and it travelled into the center median where it over turned and rolled over several times coming to rest on the wheels.
Two young children, two-year-old Zavion Martin and one-year-old Zamari Martin, were in the backseat of the car during the crash, and both were "completely ejected from the vehicle," police say.
Both children were taken to area hospitals with injuries. The two-year-old was transported to Wilson Memorial Hospital with a chest injury and the one-year-old was was airlifted by LifeNet to University Hospital in Syracuse for a head injury.
Neither child was properly secured in a child restraint seat, according to investigators.
A fourth passenger, 27-year-old Anthony Martin, was sitting in the passenger's seat and sustained an ankle injury.
Ka-Seema died of her injuries at Wilson Hospital, police say.
