Deputies: Unrestrained infant suffers skull fracture in Clay County crash, driver arrested

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Investigators accidental determination was nary kid information spot successful the car

Kashayla Johnson (Clay County Sheriff's Office)

An babe suffered a skull fracture successful a car clang Sunday nighttime successful the Doctors Inlet area, according to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office.

Kashayla Johnson, 23, of Jacksonville, was arrested arsenic a effect of the clang and charged with 1 number of kid neglect and 1 number of causing superior bodily harm portion driving connected a suspended license, according to an apprehension report.

It’s unclear if Johnson is the parent of the babe that was injured.

According to the apprehension report, Johnson was traveling successful a Chevrolet Impala connected County Road 220 adjacent Doctors Inlet Elementary when, for immoderate reason, the car crossed the writer median and went crossed the other lane of question earlier crashing done a schoolhouse portion motion and yet crashed head-on into a tree. A responding lawman noted successful the study that the interaction with the histrion was 60 feet from the roadway.

The lawman besides noted successful the study that determination was an unrestrained babe successful the car and that helium besides could not find a kid information seat.

According to the report, Johnson was besides not wearing a spot belt.

When the lawman attempted to talk with Johnson, she could not explicate wherever she was coming from oregon wherever she was traveling to, according to the report. The lawman besides noted successful the study that Johnson was mumbling, appeared lethargic with glassy eyes and seemed to person an altered intelligence state.

Johnson was taken to Orange Park Medical Center, and the babe was rushed to Wolfson Children’s Hospital, the study shows.

While successful the ambulance connected the mode to OPMC, Johnson made a connection that was redacted from the report. The lawman said that erstwhile she arrived astatine the hospital, she refused to talk with him.

During the archetypal investigation, according to the report, the lawman learned Johnson had been driving connected a licence that was suspended arsenic a effect of not paying aggregate postulation fines.

Another lawman went to Wolfson Children’s Hospital and learned the babe that was injured successful the clang suffered a skull fracture, the study said.

After Johnson was medically cleared to permission the hospital, she was arrested, the study said.

The study notes that Johnson is besides charged with artillery connected a instrumentality enforcement serviceman successful a abstracted incidental that occurred portion she was astatine the hospital. According to the apprehension study successful that case, a lawman was escorting Johnson backmost to her country erstwhile she refused to participate and grabbed onto the doorway frame. The study said the lawman tried to region her hands, but astatine 1 point, she pushed the lawman portion trying to get past him and permission the hospital.

Johnson was booked Monday into the Clay County jail, wherever she remained connected $250,000 enslaved arsenic of Tuesday, according to jailhouse records.