Child-seat safety baby survives crushed, twisted car wreck
Published: August 11, 2005
Owen Eisses, the new poster baby for child-seat safety, gurgled and grabbed his chubby little toes.
“He’s a miracle baby!” his granddad, Harry Eisses, said yesterday as he cuddled his 7-month-old grandson, who survived a deadly car crash Tuesday that left the car he was in crushed and twisted. His Eddie Bauer car seat helped him escape without a scratch.
His mother, April Sobisch, 30, of Alliston was removed from the driver’s seat with the Jaws of Life and airlifted to Sunnybrook hospital, where she’s in critical condition with broken arms, legs, pelvis, and ruptured liver and spleen.
“He’s perfect — not a bruise,” said Owen’s grandmother, Willy Eisses, as she stroked his hands.
“He would have been killed if he wasn’t tucked in this car seat — it’s truly amazing.”
“We are truly blessed,” his grandfather said. “I never would have put value on a child car seat before.”
Yesterday the grandparents went to visit their daughter-in-law, who managed to smile at a mention of her son.
“She is bruised from head to toe, but her spirits are up,” Harry Eisses said. “She remembers the car coming straight towards her — but not much after that.”
As he walked into her hospital room and gently tickled her foot, she opened her eyes and in a faltering voice told him: “If I make it through this alive, I want to go to the schools and talk to the kids and tell them what can happen in a car accident.”
Police are stumped why George Labbe, 67, of Huntsville drove the wrong way on Hwy. 400 in Barrie, crashing head-on into the Sobisch’s northbound Pontiac Grand Prix. Labbe was killed.
“We are waiting for lab tests and looking into medical records and we are talking to people who saw it happen,” OPP Const. Janet Small said. “It’s baffling.”
At least one witness said Labbe, a retired disc jockey, made a U-turn and drove into the path of oncoming traffic.
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