A three-month-old boy from Surrey, B.C., is in serious condition in hospital after a being ejected from a car in a collision in Washington state.
The vehicle carrying the boy, his mother and two sisters was southbound Thursday morning on the I-5 near Mount Vernon, about 100 kilometres south of Vancouver.
The mother, who was behind the wheel, was distracted and apparently over-corrected after her SUV started to drift off the interstate, causing the vehicle to roll, police said.
Investigators are trying to determine why the child's car seat apparently failed, according to Washington state trooper Keith Leary.
"The three-month-old was ejected out of the vehicle," Leary said. "We are looking at why the car seat and the child landed in two different places on the freeway and why it was not properly secured inside the vehicle."
The child was airlifted to a Seattle hospital.
The other occupants suffered minor injuries in the crash, police said.
With files from the CBC's Emily Elias Back to accessibility links
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