17 Year-old Girl Seriously Injured After Being Ejected From a Vehicle in St. Petersburg Overnight
The injury crash occurred on Sunday, June 25, 2017 at approximately 2:28 a.m. at the intersection of 22nd Avenue North and 68th Street North.
21 year-old Kerwin Mayorga was traveling in westbound on 22nd Avenue North with the top down in a red 2008 Chrysler Sebring convertible.
In the vehicle were Mayorga and 21 year-old Sandra Kanpis (rear passenger) and another female in the front passenger seat.
According to investigators from the St. Petersburg Police Department, Mayorga attempted to make a left hand turn onto 68th Street North, but was going too fast and left the roadway on the southwest corner of the intersection.
The Chrysler drove into to, and then up, the guide wire for a utility pole on this corner, before falling back to the ground and coming to rest with all of its wheels on the ground.
Sometime during this event, the female in the front passenger seat was ejected from the vehicle and landed on the ground. She was transported from the scene to Bayfront Health St. Petersburg with life threatening injuries but is now considered stable according to police.
Kanpis was transported from the scene to St. Petersburg General Hospital with minor
injuries.
No other information is available at this time.