A 7 -year -old boy survived a fatal accident that killed his mother and stayed by his side for 12 hours before being found just on a mountain road in Fresno County, according to the California road patrol.
The tragic story took place on Sunday before 9 am when someone called the CHP about a “backward party” that had not come home after midnight. The person who called identified the person as a 30 -year -old woman who was driving a Subaru Crossstrek, according to ChP officer Michael Salas.
Shortly before noon, he said, someone called the police dispatators to inform that they had found a 7 -year -old boy walking on the right shoulder of the lanes west of state route 168, east of Qualls Prather Road in The Aubberry community.
ChP officers together with the Sheriff's agents from Fresno County responded to the location and discovered that the child was the surviving lonely of an accident that had occurred to approximately half a mile where it was located. The authorities believe that the Subaru had abandoned the road and overturned several times for a embankment. They said that the child's mother was found outside the vehicle.
ChP officer, John Marsh, told ABC 30, that he was the first to inform the story, that the Subaru had fallen to almost 200 feet from a embankment.
“Basically I was sitting in a tree forest, covered and not visible from the road,” he said.
Salas said that neither the driver nor the child wore seat belts during the accident.
“It is not clear if the driver was expelled from the vehicle or came out after the accident occurred,” he said.
Salas said the child stayed next to his mother's lifeless body and tried to stay hot at night.
CHP researchers said that the cause of the accident remains under investigation and that the toxicology results will determine whether alcohol or drugs played a role in the fatal accident.
The boy, who suffered moderate to important injuries, was transported to the Valley Children's Hospital, where he met with his father.
