A mom from Louisiana is facing charges after she flipped her SUV several times during an accident on Sunday.
Leticia Brothers, 34, was driving the vehicle, which was carrying 11 of her children, when it crashed, flipping “repeatedly.”
The Central Fire Department was the first to respond to the accident but was forced to call for two more fire engines and more paramedic units due to the handful of injured on the scene.
“Two of the children were sitting in front, one was in the passenger seat behind the driver, four were in the next seat and four were in the hatchback, which didn’t have a window, just plastic,” Central Police Chief Roger Corcoran told reporters.
“The vehicle didn’t even have a back glass in it, it just had a plastic bag over that back window. And after the wreck, that’s how they escaped from the vehicle, through knocking that plastic bag out and trying to climb out,” he added.
All 12 occupants of the vehicle reportedly survived, but at least one of the children, who was ejected from the SUV, had to be airlifted to a local hospital for emergency treatment.
Corcoran added that Brothers was issued a summons in the hospital where she was taken after the crash.
“It’s a terrible accident. I mean, a vehicle flipped over and you have children laying everywhere. It’s a terrible thing to pull up on,” he said. “We’re lucky there wasn’t a fatality of a child.”
According to authorities, none of the SUV’s occupants were wearing a seatbelt, and that Brothers was driving an uninsured vehicle with no personal insurance coverage.
The charges include but are not limited to, careless operation and 11 counts of cruelty to juveniles and careless operation.
In 2015, Brothers was charged with cruelty to juveniles, domestic abuse, criminal neglect of family, and encouragement of child delinquency after it was found that she and nine of her children were sleeping in one room and on the floor of a home with no beds.
She was jailed at the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in 2016 and released later that year.
