There was a serious incident on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in New Bern on Friday, involving four vehicles.
According to New Bern Police investigating Officer Bill Zerby, an unnamed 2-to-3-year-old girl looked to be badly injured, bleeding from the head, but still breathing.
She was taken together with her father to Carolina East Medical Center and later transported to Greenville Vidant Medical Center which is the nearest trauma center and the hospital of choice for head injury cases.
It is not know exactly what happened at the accident, which occurred at the intersection of Lowe’s Boulevard and the MLK. A Volvo station wagon was stopped first in line at a red light and was pushed from behind twice, at least 10 feet into the intersection. The driver, Dr. Bruce King was unhurt
One impact to the Volvo was a black Dodge SUV being driven by Tammie Johnson, who was also stopped at the light, and the other impact, on the side was by a 1983 model white and cloth-topped sedan driven by the injured child’s father.
Police later said the accident appeared to have been caused by a black Pathfinder failing to yield right-of-way.
Johnson and the female driver of the Pathfinder were transported by ambulance to Carolina East Medical Center, in New Bern.
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