By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-09-26 07:40:43 | Updated at 2024-09-30 23:29:42
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A teen mom was killed in a tragic freak accident that also left her boyfriend in critical condition after they left their high school to pick up their four-month-old daughter from daycare.
Abbigail 'Grace' Callaham, 17, and her boyfriend, Thomas Kennedy, were on their way to the daycare following an early dismissal from Belton-Honea Path High School in South Carolina just after 11am on Tuesday when a 'large bird, possibly a turkey' flew out of the woods and into their windshield, the Anderson County Coroner reports.
The impact made Kennedy lose control of the vehicle and he 'ran off the right side of the highway, where he overcorrected, crossed the center line and hit a tree on the left side of the roadway,' Coroner Greg Shore said in a news release.
Abbigail Callaham, 17, (right) was killed in a tragic freak accident on Tuesday that also left her boyfriend, Thomas Kennedy (left) in critical condition
The Anderson County Coroner says the couple were on their way to pick up their four-month-old daughter from daycare when a 'large bird, possibly a turkey' flew out of the woods and into their windshield, forcing Kennedy to lose control
Callaham was not wearing a seat belt at the time, and was pinned to her seat by the tree. She was pronounced dead at the scene from multiple traumatic injuries.
Kennedy, meanwhile, was taken to a hospital in critical condition, according to Fox Carolina.
But he was reportedly able to talk to first responders when they arrived at the scene, WYFF 4 reports.
Kennedy was reportedly able to talk to first responders at the scene
'It's just a tragedy,' Shore told the local news station. 'We are all heartbroken over the circumstances.
He also told WSPA that Callaham's father was 'grief stricken' by the news, noting that her 12-year-old sister 'was also on the scene.
'It just breaks our hearts to see them suffering like that,' the coroner said.
The coroner said Kennedy overcorrected and hit a tree that pinned Callaham in her seat
Anderson School District Two, which Belton-Honea Path High School is part of, said it will now have grief counselors available for all students and staff.
'Please keep Grace's family in your thoughts and prayers as they navigate through this difficult time,' the school district wrote on Facebook.
It went on to say it will host an event to 'lift up prayers for both of these students and their families.'
'We talk a whole bunch at Anderson District Two that we are a family, so it's times like this that we can come together, we can remind each other that this is a support system, love on each other and just be there for each other,' Superintendent Jason Johns told Fox Carolina.
