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GRANTSVILLE — A mother and her two kids from Grantsville are lucky to be alive after the baby in the stroller was hit by a car and thrown 43 feet through the air. The car also knocked the mother to the ground.
Grantsville police say the driver was high on marijuana at the time. It happened about 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the intersection of Meadow Lark and Clark Street.
Ring doorbell video from a neighbor obtained exclusively by KSL-TV shows Kylie Marshall crossing the street pushing the stroller with her 1-year-old baby inside. Marshall's 2-year-old son was in front of them riding a balance bike. Marshall can be heard screaming "No, no, no," as the car headed right for them. She was knocked to the ground as the stroller went flying through the air.
"It was terrifying. I didn't know if I was going to be hit or my toddler was going to be hit," Marshall told KSL-TV. "I thought someone was going to die."
Marshall, who is an ER nurse by profession, got up from the ground and ran to her baby in the stroller.
"I just knew I needed to get to her right now. I ran across the street as fast as I could, terrified of what I was going to find in the stroller," Marshall said.
Her 1-year-old girl was taken to Primary Children's Hospital. She suffered a concussion and had scrapes and bruising and was later released. Marshall had cuts and bruising on her elbow, the palm of her hand and her knee.
"It was such a miracle that no one died or got critically injured. It was really a miracle. I'm very blessed 100%," she said.
Marshall's husband got the call from police while at work. "Worst case scenario, easily all of them could have died," James Marshall said. "This is truly a miracle."
The driver, 26-year-old Nathan Craven, was charged Wednesday in 3rd District Court with two counts of negligently operating a vehicle causing serious injury, a third-degree felony; reckless endangerment, a class A misdemeanor; and reckless driving, a class B misdemeanor.
"They were right in the middle of the intersection and there was no attempt to brake. It was determined later that he was under the influence of marijuana. He was given a series of tests, which he failed," said Lt. Jeff Watson with the Grantsville Police Department. "He gave a few different statements, said it was a manual car, a clutch he was unfamiliar with, and that the sun was in his eyes."
Police said Craven also had a vile of clean urine he was wearing inside his clothes for drug testing at work.
"This is someone that obviously has a problem. If he is driving around wearing a container of fake urine in his pants so that he can pass a urine test he knows ... he's going to test positive," Watson said.
Contributing: Pat Reavy
