Click It or Ticket campaign begins in earnest next week
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By Scott Leamon
WSLS10 Reporter
Published: May 16, 2008
With local police departments Click or Ticket campaigns beginning in earnest next week, officers at the scene of an accident Friday morning near Patrick Henry High School said it was a perfect example of why seat belts save lives.
Roanoke police charged a local driver with failure to keep control of her car after causing an accident where that caused another driver’s SUV to flip on its top with a two-year-old boy inside.
The driver of the SUV, Elizabeth Kormanyos, said her seat belt saved her from serious injury.
“I remember sparks and glass just flying at me,” she said. “My first thought was to hit the brake. But then I remembered thinking ‘that’s not going to help you because your wheels are on the roof.”
Kormanyos also credited her son Finn’s child safety seat with saving him.
Roanoke County police officer Sgt. Tim Wyatt initially installed Finn’s child seat in 2006, police records show.
Kormanyos was not charged in the accident.
Kormanyos said she would go to the hospital to have herself and her son checked out.
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