A 6-year-old girl sitting in the back of her mother’s car in a booster seat was killed in late July in a head-on collision in Forsyth County, officials said.
More than a month later, her mother now sits in jail without bond on charges including vehicular homicide and DUI.
Stacie Lee Reid, 33, of Gainesville was seriously injured in the July 28 crash, the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Friday. Reid was arrested Wednesday and has been charged with first-degree vehicular homicide, driving under the influence, reckless driving, open container and a seatbelt violation.
The 19-year-old driver of the second car was stable when taken to the hospital, the sheriff’s office said at the time. No update was provided on the teen’s condition.
Reid’s 6-year-old daughter, who was properly fastened into her car seat, was unresponsive at the scene and later died at the hospital, the release said.
According to the sheriff’s office, Reid was driving north on Crystal Cove Trail around 3:15 p.m. in her gray Toyota Camry with her daughter in the back seat.
“For unknown reasons, the Camry entered the southbound lane and went off the side of the road,” the sheriff’s office said.
Reid tried to correct her steering back toward the northbound lane, the sheriff’s office said, but the Camry remained in the southbound lane as a Chevrolet Impala driven by the 19-year-old crested a hill. The two cars hit head-on.
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