WILKESBORO
A kindergarten student and her mother died after a head-on collision on the way to school this morning in Wilkes County, according to the N.C. Highway Patrol.
A nurse, who was the driver of the other car involved in the accident, performed CPR on the girl, but the girl and her mother were pronounced dead at Wilkes Regional Medical Center.
Killed were Brittney Dancy, 22, of 604 Davis Memorial Church Road, and her daughter, Makayla Birch, 5, said Trooper Alan Hall. He said Dancy was taking her daughter to kindergarten at Mt. Pleasant Elementary School.
The accident happened at 7:40 a.m. as Dancy traveled north on Dragway Road. It was raining and her 1992 Honda Accord hydroplaned and crossed the centerline, Hall said.
Sarah Huffman, 24, was traveling in the opposite direction in a 2005 Cadillac, coming back to her home along Dragway Road after working a shift as a nurse at Wilkes Regional Medical Center, Hall said.
The trooper said that Huffman saw the car coming toward her and pulled onto the shoulder of the road as far as she could to try to avoid the accident, but the cars collided head-on.
When the trooper arrived, Huffman had taken Makayla from the car and had her on the trunk lid and was performing CPR. She continued until an ambulance arrived. Hall estimated that Huffman performed CPR on the girl for 15 minutes or more.
"She did everything she could to try to save the child, but she could not," he said.
Once emergency workers were with the mother and daughter, Huffman was taken by her husband to Wilkes Regional for treatment herself. Her injuries did not appear life threatening, said the trooper.
Hall said that Dancy was driving at approximately the posted speed limit of 55 mph, but that was too fast given that the road was wet and slick and Dancy was going around a curve. Neither she nor her daughter was wearing a seat belt, he said.
He said that Huffman did everything she could to avoid the collision. No charges will be filed.
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