In Huntington Beach, 5 kids between the ages of 2 and 5 were injured early this morning when a car drove into a Childtime Learning Center classroom. All five preschoolers were taken to local hospitals--two with serious injuries and three with minor ones. According to police, one of the children, age 2, became pinned against the wall and got stuck under the red BMW sedan.
The driver of the vehicle that crashed into the classroom wall is Huntington Beach resident Andreea Moyes. She was dropping off her child at the preschool. There is no evidence to indicate that she was driving under the influence of alcohol or was speeding.
Huntington Beach police are examining the car to determine whether there were any mechanical defects that prevented Moyes from stopping her car as she drove into the parking lot. The classroom wall that she drove her car through is made of drywall, stucco, and 2-by-4's. A fire official noted that not too much speed would be required for a motor vehicle to break through the material.
This is not the first Orange County, California motor vehicle accident involving a car driving into a school area. In July 2008, a dad drove into a preschool classroom at KinderCare in Irvine as he was picking up his child. Fortunately, no one was injured.
In 1999, a Santa Ana man stepped on the accelerator and drove at a speed of 40 mph through the playground at Southcoast Early Childhood Learning Center in Costa Mesa. Four children and a teacher's aide were injured. Two other children died in the deadly Orange County, California accident. Abrams was convicted of murder and is serving a life sentence without parole.
If your son or daughter was injured in an Orange County, California car accident, whether as a vehicle occupant, pedestrian, or an innocent bystander in a school yard or inside a building, you may have grounds for filing a California personal injury lawsuit seeking compensation for injuries to minors or children.
Car Crashes Into Preschool, Pins Child, NBC, May 28, 2009
Five children hurt when car crashes into preschool, OC Register, May 28, 2009
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