DETROIT (AP) - A 27-year-old Detroit woman is charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated causing death after her 3-year-old son was killed in a crash on the city’s eastside.
Charlessia Pelt was arraigned Sunday. She also is charged with reckless driving causing death, child abuse and operating while intoxicated with occupants in a vehicle.
Michael Jones was not properly restrained Thursday in a child’s car seat in the rear of a minivan that barreled through a red light and struck a car. The collision ejected the boy into the street where the minivan rolled back over him. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
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Two other children in the minivan escaped serious injury.
Pelt did not have an attorney Sunday. She is jailed on bond.
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