PEA RIDGE — Tousled blond hair framed the face of shy, little Malia Green, 4, who lay quietly on the grass while emergency personnel examined her. Her mother sat nearby calling family for help. The two had just been involved in a head-on collision. Malia wouldn’t talk.
Her mother, Angela Green, 44, of Pea Ridge, said she had been helping her mother, who is scheduled for surgery and who just found out she has cancer, and was on her way to the store to buy a child car seat because she had left Malia’s in her grandfather’s truck.
While driving east into Pea Ridge on Slack Street, Green saw a small pickup cross the center line. She said she tried to avoid it, but was struck and her car traveled over a culvert and into a ditch.
Green was cited for no driver’s license and no child restraint.
The Greens were treated, then released from Mercy Medical Center. But, while at the hospital, Green was threatened with losing her child.
“That would have devastated her,” she said. “She’s so shy.”
Green, who is disabled andfaces the possibility of back surgery, she said, is on prescription medication.
She said hospital personnel called the Department of Human Services, but thankfully Pea Ridge police notified the hospital shewas not responsible for the accident.
Judy Drain, 66, of Seligman, Mo., the driver of the other vehicle, was transported by Pea Ridge Ambulance. Drain was cited for left of center.
News, Pages 1 on 06/13/2012