“This is a bloody one.” Officer Brunt, a spongy looking man with a broad waist spoke to his partner as he opened the door to the passenger’s side.
Little Lulu Lovewell was obviously dead.
The impact of the gas bag popped her pretty little head right off her neck and propelled it directly out the rear window of the vehicle, as far as the eye could see. Officer Brunt sent his partner to search for the head, while he reported his discovery over his two-way communication device. Before long, more professionals were on the scene to investigate what Officer Brunt reported as a clear-cut case of vehicular manslaughter.
Little Lulu’s body was collapsed in the front seat. The seat belt was still fastened across her lap, the little lap Officer Brunt found covered with a deflated bloody bag and the child’s headless torso. The blood was sticky at the neck.
Lois was unconscious. Her body slumped across the bloody bag that clung to the steering wheel, after is smashed Lois in the face and broke her nose.
A number of young photojournalists, on the scene with cameras and the competitive desire to scoop the competition, managed to capture the bloody mess inside the vehicle. Reporters, microphone in hand, spoke to their television audience with an earnest dedication to broadcast up-to-the-minute news to the people, just as soon as it happens.
Rescue workers removed Lois from the All American Vehicle.
They strapped her ankles and wrists to a board and placed the board on a stretcher. Her face was a bloody mess and her nose had been smashed into itself. Her skin was burned from the explosive chemical residue and her eyebrows were gone.
The rescue team determined that Lois may not be able to breathe sufficiently and placed an oxygen mak on her face. The went about with their prescribed set of steps to be taken at the scene and, eventually, Lois returned to consciousness.
She opened her eyes to see people standing around her and realized that she was no longer inside the vehicle. She found herself pinned down, on her back, unable to free herself from the restraints. She felt pain on her face and chest. Lois felt like she had been crushed by an elephant’s foot, one that came out of nowhere.
“Don’t worry, Mrs. Lovewell, you’re going to be fine. Just a broken nose and second degree burns. You may have some fractured ribs. If that’s the case, they should be taped.”
The rescue worker removed the oxygen mask from Lois’s face and continued,
“We’re going to get you to a hospital, right away.”
“Just a minute,” interjected Officer Brunt. “I need to talk to her.”
Officer Brunt looked around at the media cameras and caught the attention of the ever popular KPAP Television-2-You News network reporter with his cameraman. He waved them over for an exclusive live interview at the scene.
“According to your driver’s license, your name is Lois Lovewell. Is that correct?” The fat officer looked directly down at Lois , but not as closely as the camera lens focused on her disfigured face.
“Yes”
“And, you live at 4209 Deer Meadow Road. “Is that right?”
“Yes.”
“According to the registration, the All American Vehicle belongs to you and your husband. Is that correct, Ma’am?”
“Yes.”
“You did not have your child restrained in the federally mandated child safety seat, as required by law. That was a law enacted to protect all children, up to the maximum body weight of sixty pounds. Are you aware of that, Mrs. Lovewell?”
Officer Brunt went on without waiting for an answer,
“The law also states that all children age ten and under must ride in the back seat of a motor vehicle. Are you aware, Mrs. Lovewell,” his voice was strident, “that your daughter was not restrained in the back seat of your vehicle?”
Lois was in a state of shock. She felt like her face was on fire, as the pain penetrated flesh and bone. She had difficulty breathing through her rearranged nasal passages. She was in so much pain it was hard to remain conscious, but she asked,
“Where’s Little Lulu?”
to be continued…