Thursday, August 31, 2017

5-year old Kamariya Shayla Long killed in crash after she was not wearing seat belt and her grandmother, Bernadette Walker, 57, ran off the right side of the road and hit a utility pole in North Carolina

LILLINGTON, North Carolina --

The North Carolina Highway Patrol says a 5-year-old girl has died after a car driven by her grandmother ran off a road and overturned.

The Fayetteville Observer reports the patrol said Kamariya Long of Broadway was pronounced dead at Central Carolina Hospital in Sanford. She died on Wednesday.

According to the patrol, the car driven by 57-year-old Bernadette Walker ran off the right side of the road, hit a ditch and overturned, coming to rest against a utility pole.


The patrol said a 12-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl were also in the care. Neither they, Kamariya nor Walker was wearing seat restraints.

Walker and the other children were taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville to be treated for injuries the report said were not life-threatening.


The grandmother has blood on her hands for the death of this little girl.  RIP.
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LILLINGTON, NC — A 5-year-old girl died Wednesday after a car driven by her grandmother ran off Mt. Pisgah Church Road in Harnett County and overturned, the Highway Patrol said.

Kamariya Shayla Long, of Pineland Drive in Broadway, was pronounced dead at Central Carolina Hospital in Sanford, according to a report filed by Trooper D.E. Edwards.

The wreck happened at 8:24 a.m. about 11 miles west of Lillington.

The driver, Bernadette Walker, 57, also of Pineland Drive, was traveling south in a 2001 Mitsubishi Gallant when it ran off the right side of the road, the report said.

The car hit a ditch, overturned, continued traveling south and came to rest when it hit a utility pole, the report said.

Two other children, ages 12-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl, were in the car.

Neither Kamairya nor the 4-year-old were in child restraint seats. The older child and Walker were not wearing seat belts.

Walker and the other children were taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville to be treated for injuries that were not life-threatening, the report said.

Nancy McCleary 


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Kamariya Shayla Marie Long age 5, of 116 Char-Lin Drive Sanford, NC passed on Wednesday, August 30, 2017 at Central Carolina Hospital, Sanford.

She is survived by her parents, Timothy Long and Chasity Petty; her siblings, Jaylen Tysor, Timothy Long Jr. "TJ", Treasure Long, Logan Alston and Maaliyah Morgan; her grandparents, Elsie and Johnny Petty, Joyce McNeill, Charlotte Long and Shurby Long.